Smart People's Quotes

[Restrikted]

A few of my favorites:

I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.
-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
-Winston Churchill

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
-Stephen Hawking

[pharmboy]

"Focus on what you have. Not on what you don't have." --Lou Holtz

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth living." --Albert Einstein

"The Devil is not in the details. God is." --Pharmboy

"By thought, the thing you want is brought. By action, you shall receive it."
Wallace Wattles The Science of Being Great (or How to be a Genius).

[Statikkk]

My personal favourites:

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose. - Dr. Stephen Covey

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. - Ray Kurzweil

Accept - then act. - Eckhart Tolle

I thought there was something hanging where that thing isn't. - a buddy of mine, Pink Floyd Experience @ Massey Hall

[Dan.Linehan]

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

- Thomas Jefferson

[quoteguy]

Here's one from one of my favorite authors...

A Warrior of Light assumes his Personal legend entirely – his reason for living. His companions remark: "his faith is admirable!"
The warrior is proud for a few minutes and then ashamed of what he hears, because he does not possess the faith that he displays.
At this moment his angel whispers to him: "you are only an instrument of the light. There is no reason to feel proud of yourself or to feel guilty; there is only reason to fulfill your destiny."
And the Warrior of Light, aware that he is an instrument, feels calmer and more secure.

Paulo Coelho - Warrior Of The Light: A Manual

[elastigirl]

Live your life like a rythm..soon you'll be dancing with em
- indogo

[Cantando]

I am playing the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
Eric Morecambe.

[Mato Kinze]

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you!"
Author unknown (missing, presumed dead)

[Loki]

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence. ~Unknown

[Dan.Linehan]

Every time you sniff and say somebody has “too much free time,” the part of you that used to love making things for pure joy dies a little.

- Merlin Mann

[elastigirl]

that one decision is shaping the rest of your life
- indogo

[sheffy4]

I love Woody Allen quotes. Mostly they just make me laugh, but the first one I list is one that's actually helped me in life.

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."

"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank."

"If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job."

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends."

"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down."

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."

"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"

"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."

[Dan.Linehan]

When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

-Ayn Rand

[Dan.Linehan]

Without God, murder is forbidden by human law; it is only for those acting on behalf of God, that everything is permitted.

- Jonathan Wallace

[supertom]

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln


love abe quotes

[agnostic]

"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzybski

[Dan.Linehan]

Oh, Michelle was full of plans that day, on the fast track, with no time, she told me, for distractions - especially men. But she knew how to laugh, brightly and easily, and I noticed that she didn't seem in too much of a hurry to get back to the office. And there was something else, a glimmer that danced across her round, dark eyes whenever I looked at her, the slightest hint of uncertainty, as if, deep inside, she knew how fragile things really were, and that if she ever let go, even for a moment, all her plans might quickly unravel. That touched me somehow, that trace of vulnerability. I wanted to know that part of her.

- Barack Obama

[Key2Wealth]

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

James Allen

[Angela]

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

-- George Bernard Shaw

[dream23]

"reality leaves a lot to the imagination".

-- John Lennon

[Key2Wealth]

"A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."

James Allen
1864-1912, Author of "As a Man Thinketh

[Ninja]

"Living is good, but living in fear is not my way of living" - Android 16

Yes, it's from an anime (DBZ), but it really impressed me at a fairly young age and I never forgot it.

[Dan.Linehan]

It’s unfortunate that people so easily forget that life is supposed to be interesting, challenging, and fun. If your life is filled with compelling choices, consider yourself blessed. Make some decisions, experience the consequences, and grow from there. It’s all good.

- Steve Pavlina

[Dan.Linehan]

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

- Lewis Carroll

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

- Lewis Carroll

is that saying - IF you dont know where your going so it doesnt matter which path you take.

or

It doesnt matter which path you choose.

[MrNotebook]

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. ~Plato

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by supertom

is that saying - IF you dont know where your going so it doesnt matter which path you take.

or

It doesnt matter which path you choose.

I see it as the first. If you don't know which option of two would be best, then there is no right choice. You learn something either way.

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

I see it as the first. If you don't know which option of two would be best, then there is no right choice. You learn something either way.

yeah thought so



To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders - lao tzu

[Dan.Linehan]

Heroes made lousy partners in business and in love. The courage to face death was not always a virtue. It could be the ultimate cop-out. If she died in a noble cause, she didn't have to face the boredom of day-to-day existence.

- Christopher Pike

[Liara Covert]

We are alone with everything we love.
~Novalis ( Friedrich von Hardenberg)