Favourite Quotations

[TylerDurden]

Alright, here's a thread where you can post your favourite quotations from your favourite philosophers, movies, books or whatever.

Here's  my first contribution:-

"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble."
Caesar Augustus, from Suetonius, Augustus
Roman politician (63 BC - 14 AD)

(Rule is no more than 1 quotation per person per day)

[Satya]

"There is nothing to be learned from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books."
~David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776), Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

I don't know how truthful it is, though.  Certain things must be taught in person.  And knowledge has historically been transmitted orally.  I still think it is mostly valid, especially considering the era from which it comes - The Age of Reason.

[TylerDurden]

"Laws are silent in times of war."
Cicero (Roman Consul, lawyer etc. 1st century BC).

[Raw Kyle]

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison

[boxcarguy07]

   
"There are men who can think no deeper than a fact."
- Voltaire

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Angela Monet (but who is she? nobody knows!)

"Oh great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."
- The Doors

"Don't worry, be happy."
- Bobby McFerrin

"It's when you cry just a little
but you laugh in the middle
that you've made it."
- Jason Mraz

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You know, we have two eyes. Why do we need to be double blind?""
-Dr. Masaru Emoto

[stevesurv]

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[Satya]

"The growth of knowledge depends entirely on disagreement."
~ Karl R. Popper (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994), an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics

[boxcarguy07]

"A specialist is someone who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about absolutely nothing."
-Paul Chek said this, but i don't remember if he was quoting someone else or not

[TylerDurden]

Festina Lente(Latin quotation for "Hurry Slowly"!)

[Satya]

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
 ~ Isaac Asimov

From the excellent essay, "How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975); later published in Asimov on Science Fiction (1981).

[bluesandteals]

"Joy is the fastest way to get the Soul in the body."

[Guittarman03]

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

          -Albert Einstein

[TheWayCreatesTheWarrior]

 :I do what I do. Thats the way I've always done it, and thats the way im going to continue to do it. I do what I do....

 :Kramer, what the hell are you talking about!?

[William]

"Ða fæmnan þe gewuniað onfon gealdorcræftigan & scinlæcan &
wiccan, ne læt þu ða libban."

One of the pre-conquest English kings.

[Sarav]

One of my favourite...

To err is human in so far as animals seldom or never err or at least only the cleverest of them do so...

the above from Georg Lichtenberg (great man!)