FakeNameHere
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(sp?) what are some qoutes you have heard of that appear true and are timeless? "In the past, people study for self improvement. Now people study to look smart" i find this true. What are yours?
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finalfantasynut
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin (1950 - )
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
Amy Tan (1952 - )
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman (1942 - ), Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison (1934 - )
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Nick Diamos
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams (1957 - )
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Unknown
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Unknown
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
Unknown
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed)
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981), Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
Walter Goodman
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Unknown
i have alot more too i will only post them if asked
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin (1950 - )
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
Amy Tan (1952 - )
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman (1942 - ), Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison (1934 - )
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Nick Diamos
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams (1957 - )
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Unknown
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Unknown
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
Unknown
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed)
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981), Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
Walter Goodman
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Unknown
i have alot more too i will only post them if asked
FakeNameHere
BattleForums Senior Member
noo... that... was... cut and paste.
finalfantasynut
Member!
i have a huge document of my favoret quotes when ever i find one i put it in
FakeNameHere
BattleForums Senior Member
oh, so i was right, it WAS cut and paste. though that sounds nerdy, yet cool. "im just too lazy"
Vice_Vex
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"If at first you don't succed, assasinate everyone who knows you failed."
FakeNameHere
BattleForums Senior Member
"lol soooooo true"
finalfantasynut
Member!
okay i will keep that in mind i have about 3 more pages of quotes but i probily wont post them