Words of Wisdom (Quotes)

[Neon]

I love wise quotes and "Sayings"... Show your favourites if you got some!

1.

"...I see all this potential, and I see squandering.
God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
We're the middle children of history, man.
No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression.
Our Great War is a spiritual war...
Our great depression is our lives.
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires,
and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact.
And we're very, very pissed off..." ~ Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

2.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. - If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you...~ Marshall Mathers III, aka Eminem

3.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein

 

[Migxxx]

Here's some of them ( hopefully I don't go overboard ;_; ).

"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the concequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand.

You must obviously be operating under the assumption that because you're right I must therefore be wrong

The pleasure of having a dream is that it is a fantasy. If it happens, it was never really a dream.

Evolution proceeds towards what works, not what's best.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. — Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." — Mark Twain

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important ones." -Albert Einstein

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” - Albert Einstein

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool" - Shakespeare

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

(enjoy SOPA, PIPA & defense act @up & @down)

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty

Sometimes it takes a long time to play like yourself. — Miles Davis

‎"It's very admirable to be idealistic. I want people to think — but I'm not trying to think I can save the world. You know, maybe the world doesn't deserve to be saved. Maybe they only deserve to be entertained before they're all destroyed." — Marilyn Manson

“If you hate me, I envy you because you can get away from me. I’m everywhere I go.” — Artie Lange

 

[wyzr]

Let it be - Mother Mary

...

Don't make it bad, just take a sad song and make it better - Paul McCartney

 

[Evan]

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
- Niccolò Machiavelli

 

[RoHaN-OTs]

“The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.”
― Charlie Sheen

 

[Znote]

"Better to be hated, than loved for what your not."
- Marina and the diamonds

"Life doesn't get better than what you make it."
- No idea, bunch'of people?

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose."
- Bill gates.

 

[Doniio]

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

-Tupac Shakur

 

[Bintzer]

Here's some of my favorites

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening. – Alexander Woollcott

The mind is everything, what you think you become... - Buddha

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. – Doug Floyd

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. – Edith Sitwell

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfetly useless manner, you have learned how to live. – Lin Yutang

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. – Graffiti

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. O’Rourke

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. – Italian Proverb

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. – Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamour of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Now if you take heed to the words of wisdom
That are written on the walls of life
Than universally we will stand
and divided we will fall
Cause love conquers all.
- Public Enemy

Maybe hell ain't a place meant for us to burn
Maybe earth is hell and just a place for us to learn
- David Banner

 

[Migxxx]

Let's bump this thread.

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." - James Madison

"That which can be asserted without evidence can be refuted without evidence" - Christopher Hitchens

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler

 

[Bintzer]

When you smoke the herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb -- it's your conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.
- Bob Marley

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

 

[walkingdragon]

"Patience is the companion of wisdom." -Saint Augustine

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." -Grandma Moses

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -Buddha

"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -Chief Seattle

I thought I'd contribute...

 

[Red]

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

Red

 

[Scarlet Ayleid]

Always found this one cool

Time changes everything.

That's what people say, it's not true.
Doing things changes things
Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.
-Dr. House

 

[Neon]

Quotes from the movie Fight Club (Personal Favourite Movie)

1.

Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

2.

Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

3.

The things you own end up owning you.

4.

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

5.

Fuck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that's your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me.

6. Long one (Best one)

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.

~ Tyler Durden, from the movie Fight Club.

 

[Darkfury1]

Let's bump a lil.

You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here.
-- Richard P Feynman

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
-- Richard P Feynman

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
-- Richard P Feynman

I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.
-- Richard P Feynman

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
-- James K Feibleman

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.
-- Camille Flammarion

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.
-- Antony Flew

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition [of theism].
-- Antony Flew

Albert Einstein: God is a Product of Human Weakness
The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.

Albert Einstein & Spinoza's God: Harmony in the Universe
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.

Albert Einstein: It is a Lie that I Believe in a Personal God
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein: Scientists Can Hardly Believe in Prayers to Supernatural Beings
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being

Albert Einstein: Concept of a Personal God is the Main Source of Conflict
Nobody, certainly, will deny that the idea of the existence of an omnipotent, just, and omnibeneficent personal God is able to accord man solace, help, and guidance; also, by virtue of its simplicity it is accessible to the most undeveloped mind. But, on the other hand, there are decisive weaknesses attached to this idea in itself, which have been painfully felt since the beginning of history.

Albert Einstein: Divine Will Cannot Cause Natural Events
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.

Albert Einstein: Human Fantasy Created Gods
During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world.

Albert Einstein: Idea of a Personal God is Childlike
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Albert Einstein: Idea of a Personal God Cannot be Taken Seriously
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein: Desire for Guidance & Love Creates Belief in Gods
The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even or life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

Albert Einstein: Morality Concerns Humanity, Not Gods
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God.

 

[flaite1]

"Most people are not in the habit of using their brains. Period. The elite of the world believe, that a nation or a world of people who do not use their intelligence, are no better than animals who do not have any intelligence, and thus are steaks on the table, by choice and consent, for those who do." -William Cooper

“What is better, to be born good? Or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?” -Paarthurnax, Skyrim

 

[Sir Bananas]

Wether you think you can, or can't, you're right
--- Henry Ford
God does not play dice with the universe
---Albert Einstein

 

[Cdvooo]

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.
Murray Gell-Mann

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
Murray Gell-Mann


For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
Murray Gell-Mann

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
Murray Gell-Mann


I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.
Murray Gell-Mann (samehere)

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.
Murray Gell-Mann

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
Murray Gell-Mann

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.
Murray Gell-Mann <true

"The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible."
T. Jefferson

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
T. Jefferson

"I never told my religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged others' religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read."
T. Jefferson

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.
C. Darwin(father of Biology)

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
A. Einstein

 

[Forsakenfate]

"What good's religion
When it's each other we despise" by Brian Molko.

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” by Dr. Seuss.

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” by André Gide.

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” by Mark Twain.

“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect, and I don't live to be. But before you start pointing fingers...
make sure your hands are clean.” by Bob Marley.

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” by Albert Einstein.

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” by Isaac Asimov.

 

[Bintzer]

We must become the change we want to see.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent - that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
- Friedrich Nietzche