Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[DaveC426913]

It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

I did not think that's what that phrase meant.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I did not think that's what that phrase meant.

Well?

 

[DaveC426913]

Well?

I never really had an idea what it meant.

I just sort of assumed it was some sort of badly formed 'I know you are but what am I?'

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0

 

[lisab]

I never really had an idea what it meant.

I just sort of assumed it was some sort of badly formed 'I know you are but what am I?'

I think it's based on the idiom, "Pretty is as pretty does."

To me it sounds like something Forrest's mother came up with on the fly, as a response to someone calling him stupid.

 

[FizixFreak]

Well you could get a cherry filled chocolate or a creamy center chocolate or a caramel filled one or a maple one or an almond or a peanut butter or a jelly or one with a mouse fetus or a worm or a shard of glass or a gold nugget. There are many different but they all look the same so you never know what you will get.

Mouse fetus,worm,shard of glass what the hell!

Get a box for your woman and see for yourself.

Too bad i can't do that i only have an imaginary girlfriend

 

[FizixFreak]

He who procrastinates laughs last.

That my friend..., is not true.

 

[Lancelot59]

Good judgement comes from experience.

Experience comes from poor judgement.

 

[Noko]

“To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both — a philosopher.”
Nietzsche

"Confine yourself to the present."
Marcus Aurelius

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[Ivan Seeking]

“Economic forecasting was created to make astrology look respectable.”
- Kenneth Galbraith

 

[PatrickPowers]

What are your favourite quotes?

"You want fries with that?"

 

[Drakkith]

My favorite quote is my forum signature.

 

[FizixFreak]

Best quote ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9c_tK8yNA

Milk spilling words

 

[navynuclear]

“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.” Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[navynuclear]

“Economic forecasting was created to make astrology look respectable.”
- Kenneth Galbraith

sweet

 

[lisab]

“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.” Eleanor Roosevelt

...are you sure Eleanor Roosevelt used the term "badass"?

 

[DaveC426913]

...are you sure Eleanor Roosevelt used the term "badass"?

"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity."
-Abraham Lincoln

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Abraham Lincoln's Internet Wisdom

 

[Borg]

...are you sure Eleanor Roosevelt used the term "badass"?

It appears to be misattributed from a movie.

 

[navynuclear]

Ok you got me..."I am not a crook" Richard Nixon

 

[Borg]

Another Richard Nixon quote:

!$#^*@!*&%

 

[navynuclear]

It appears to be misattributed from a movie.

Got me again. It was from the movie The Sound of Music.

 

[Char. Limit]

"God created the integers... and he made infinity too, just to confuse us."

 

[Willis666]

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
-Buddha

 

[navynuclear]

"God created the integers... and he made infinity too, just to confuse us."

lol!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Nobody can use dirty words or nudity [on television] but Steven Spielberg

- Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/iphone/news/world/story.html?id=5974603

 

[Jasongreat]

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" - Richard Feynman

 

[drizzle]

a strange passion is moving in my head.
My heart has become a bird
which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so
that the one i love is everywhere?

- jalal ad-din rumi

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It's always nice to meet a world leader who has bigger ears than me.

- Obama; at Disneyworld.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Newt Gingrich: I don't understand why people take an instant dislike to me.

Bob Dole: It saves them time.

 

[lisab]

Newt Gingrich: I don't understand why people take an instant dislike to me.

Bob Dole: It saves them time.

I lol'ed at that...

 

[Borg]

I lol'ed at that...

It brought a smile to my face as well.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Ron Paul had some great lines in the Republican debate last night.

Wolf Blitzer: If you were President and Raúl Castro [President of Cuba] called, what would you say to him?

Ron Paul: I'd ask him why he called.

 

[Astronuc]

"Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness." social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. I think here, the term religion refers more to ideology. Interesting point though.

“When it gets so that your opponents are not just people you disagree with, but… the mental state in which I am fighting for good, and you are fighting for evil, it’s very difficult to compromise,” Haidt tells Moyers. “Compromise becomes a dirty word.”

http://billmoyers.com/episode/how-do-conservatives-and-liberals-see-the-world/

 

[Ivan Seeking]

http://billmoyers.com/episode/how-do-conservatives-and-liberals-see-the-world/

I liked this quote, from the same link

Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher, looked at how often books had not been returned, from lots of libraries. And, right, the ethics books were more likely to have been not returned than other philosophy books

 

[Ivan Seeking]

"Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness." social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. I think here, the term religion refers more to ideology. Interesting point though.

“When it gets so that your opponents are not just people you disagree with, but… the mental state in which I am fighting for good, and you are fighting for evil, it’s very difficult to compromise,” Haidt tells Moyers. “Compromise becomes a dirty word.”

http://billmoyers.com/episode/how-do-conservatives-and-liberals-see-the-world/

One thing about his position that is annoying is that he ignores that on the right, actual religion does play a huge role, and they believe they really are fighting against evil. That seems like a fairly significant point to overlook given the context.

On the matter regarding ethics books... too funny, but almost predictable as irony.

If explicit cognition about morality promotes moral behavior then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books similar in age and popularity. Study 1 found that relatively obscure, contemporary ethics books of the sort likely to be borrowed mainly by professors and advanced students of philosophy were actually about 50% more likely to be missing than non-ethics books. Study 2 found that classic (pre-1900) ethics books were about twice as likely to be missing.

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/EthicsBooks.htm

 

[ArcherofScience]

“It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.”

 

[OmCheeto]

“...but silence is better than idle words.”

Thank you for that. I turned off my cell phone last weekend and got tons of work done. Amazing how he could predict, 512410 days before the invention of the cell phone, that my brother would call me every weekend, for several years, talking at me about his colon polyps.

Anyways, my good friends today, steered me to this quote:

Goodyear will never have to pay me what it cheated me out of. I will never see a cent from my case. But with the passage and the president’s signature today, I have an even richer reward.

Cheers to richer rewards.

To richer rewards, my friends.

 

[jobyts]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Euro-zone crisis is effectively over

- Fareed Zakaria; Fareed Zakaria GPS, this morning

 

[OmCheeto]

you can’t put a gun rack on a Volt

Ya, but, I'll bet a

.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world...

would fit in the glove box.

...punk..

 

[OmCheeto]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

via Jim Clifton, Page 72, The Coming Jobs War

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum now have the Secret Service accompanying them. In Santorum’s case I think it’s the first time he’s actually ever used protection.

- Sen. Scott Brown (R)

 

[nitsuj]

[Stupid is as stupid does] It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

Just want to second that interpretation.

More specifically I think it points out stupid is something people do, not something people are.

Said different and in context of the movie being mentally slower, doesn't imply stupid. And if you think it does, well that's stupid . And stupid is as stupid does.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Fifty years ago tomorrow, Walter Cronkite began his broadcasts of the evening news, on CBS. Back then the evening news lasted 15 minutes.
- Bob Schieffer; Face the Nation

 

[Lisa!]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein

 

[Hobin]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein

Are you sure Einstein said that? I can't seem to find a source.

In other news:
"Swooping is bad." - Alistair, Dragon Age: Origins.

 

[Lisa!]

Are you sure Einstein said that? I can't seem to find a source.

In other news:
"Swooping is bad." - Alistair, Dragon Age: Origins.

No, I was in doubt whether this quote is his or not, then I searched for it and I found some websites which said that's his! Anyway I like this quote and I don't care who's said that.

 

[DaveC426913]

“But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

or spend its life proving you wrong...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing_gourami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_rivulus
http://treesandshrubs.about.com/b/2011/04/01/some-fish-can-climb-trees.htm

 

[Lisa!]

or spend its life proving you wrong...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing_gourami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_rivulus
http://treesandshrubs.about.com/b/2011/04/01/some-fish-can-climb-trees.htm

That doesn't mean all fish climb trees anyway!

 

[Rajput9572]

Getting defeated is just a temporary notion, giving it up is what makes it permanent. This quote is from one of my favorite quotes.