An Epic Aristarch- Just call me Anonymous Quotes I enjoy reading: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."- H.P. Lovecraft Benjamin Franklin quotes: "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave" "A small leak can sink a great ship." "Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one." "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." (I also think this is comparable to the Russian Proverb- "There is no shame in not knowing, the shame lies in not finding out." ) "Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Albert Einstein quotes: "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools" "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." Mother Teresa: "Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own." "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. " "A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."-Abraham Lincoln "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"-Abraham Lincoln "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln "All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?" - Buddha "Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." -Buddha "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."- Buddha "Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely"- Buddha "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule." - Buddha "I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful." Marilyn Monroe "I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one." Marilyn Monroe "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. " Winston Churchill "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."- Winston Churchill "Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known." - Ronald Reagan "A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar." - Mark Twain "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."- Mark Twain "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Mark Twain "All right, then, I'll go to hell."- Mark Twain (Lol- I'll see you there Mr. Twain) |