QuoteLog

“In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.”

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.”

“But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

“At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.”

“A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.”

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

“The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has - from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”

“Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.”

“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.”

“Bosses who don’t understand that a little catnap can make employees feel better and work better aren’t smart enough to be the boss.”

“When what you’re doing feels like shooting fish in a barrel, you ought to be worried that things aren’t as simple as you think they are.”

“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.”

“Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”

“You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.”

“Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.”

“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”

“In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

“The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear.”

“You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

“We have learned that only 1 percent of our genome diverges from a mouse’s. With only 300 genes distinguishing us from tiny, mute, artless vermin, the triviality of racial distinctions becomes clear.”

“In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.”

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.”

“Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.”

“In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.”

“One is very crazy when in love.”

“Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.”

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”

“The world is not only stranger than you suppose, it is stranger than you can suppose.”

“If youth only knew, if age only could.”

“May the Lord help the enemy of a patient man whose patience has expired.”

“I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.”

“Out of the very stones they will fabricate such a tower of falsehoods that you can only stand and gape in wonder and admiration at their fruitful invention.”

“I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

“It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes; if you are in one, stop digging.”

“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.”

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.”

“Okay, brain. You don’t like me, and I don’t like you, but let’s get through this thing and then I can continue killing you with beer.”

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”

“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”

“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”

“A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home-ground, home-made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a coffee is a match for twenty blue devils, and will exorcise them all.”

“If you can’t stand a little bloody nose, why don’t you go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous, with treasures to satiate appetites both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.”