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What's Your Favorite Quote?
08 Oct 2014 20:12 #1
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
What's Your Favorite Quote? was created by ScienceChic
Though I am known for having long posts at times, I love the wisdom that can be found in short snippets of words. Sometimes a quote just sums up the mood, feelings, and/or experience of the moment. I thought I'd start a collection here, please add yours!
This was my original signature quote for the longest time, and still my all-time favorite for it applies to pretty much everything in life.
"I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away." ~Peter Viereck
Last lecture, Mount Holyoke College, 1997. (Quoted in Profile, New Yorker, October 24, 2005, by Tom Reiss)
Science...because it is all that and a bag of chips.
‘I’ll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don’t have to be able understand very complicated things. It’s just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That’s what you need: a talent for simplicity.’
~Mitchell Wilson
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~Buckminster Fuller
And a little humor, cuz this one makes me chuckle every time I read it.
“I love how the internet has improved people’s grammar far more than any English teacher has. If you write “your” instead of “you’re” in English class, all you get is a red mark. Mess up on the internet, and may God have mercy on your soul. ~K Whatley
Wine is the answer. What was the question? ~Unknown
This was my original signature quote for the longest time, and still my all-time favorite for it applies to pretty much everything in life.
"I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away." ~Peter Viereck
Last lecture, Mount Holyoke College, 1997. (Quoted in Profile, New Yorker, October 24, 2005, by Tom Reiss)
Science...because it is all that and a bag of chips.
‘I’ll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don’t have to be able understand very complicated things. It’s just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That’s what you need: a talent for simplicity.’
~Mitchell Wilson
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~Buckminster Fuller
And a little humor, cuz this one makes me chuckle every time I read it.
“I love how the internet has improved people’s grammar far more than any English teacher has. If you write “your” instead of “you’re” in English class, all you get is a red mark. Mess up on the internet, and may God have mercy on your soul. ~K Whatley
Wine is the answer. What was the question? ~Unknown
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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09 Oct 2014 07:45 #3
by Nobody that matters
Only one of your quotes could be called a snippet, the others are paragraphs.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Robert J Hanlon
"Whatever you are, be a good one" Abraham Lincoln
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
--Robert Heinlein
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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ScienceChic wrote: Though I am known for having long posts at times, I love the wisdom that can be found in short snippets of words.
Wine is the answer. What was the question? ~Unknown
Only one of your quotes could be called a snippet, the others are paragraphs.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Robert J Hanlon
"Whatever you are, be a good one" Abraham Lincoln
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
--Robert Heinlein
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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15 Oct 2014 21:34 #9
by Wicked
We'll hold this line until Hell freezes over --Then we'll hold it on ice skates.-Anonymous picket sign
Couldn’t, wouldn’t, mustn’t, shouldn’t – these are the laments of the spineless. –Bette Davis
Feminist. We Just Call Out Bulls**t Where We See It.
Replied by Wicked on topic What's Your Favorite Quote?
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-article2.htm
We'll hold this line until Hell freezes over --Then we'll hold it on ice skates.-Anonymous picket sign
Couldn’t, wouldn’t, mustn’t, shouldn’t – these are the laments of the spineless. –Bette Davis
Feminist. We Just Call Out Bulls**t Where We See It.
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