Miscellaneous Quotations

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"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable."

-Jamake Highwater

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

-Jean de La Bruyère

"Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process."

-Arnold Horshak

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there."

-Richard Feynman

"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."

-Mark Twain

"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."

-Stephen Butler Leacock

"Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?"

-unknown

"A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark."

-Henry Louis Mencken

"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."

-Don Marquis

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

-Albert Einstein

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."

-Hannah More

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

-Joseph Heller

"The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

-Eden Philpotts

"Sometimes laughter is the only weapon we have."

-Roger Rabbit

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

-Joseph Weizenbaum

"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."

-Philip K. Dick

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."

-Francis Hutcheson

"If ignorance is bilss, then knock this smile off my face."

-Zach De La Rocha

"Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing, with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place."

-Robert Heinlein

"I can resist everything except temptation."

-Oscar Wilde

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

-Marlene Dietrich

"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

-Mark Twain

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself."

-Loren Eiseley

"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."

-Loren Eiseley

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."

-William Butler Yeats

"Learn from the mistakes made by others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself."

-unknown

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

-Charles Babbage

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

-William Shakespeare

"What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it."

-Johann Gottlieb Fichte

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

-Richard Buckminster Fuller

"We will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate among us anyone who does."

-Military Honor Code

"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."

-Dr. Samuel Johnson