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

[matthyaouw]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

-Albert Einstein.

 

[Smurf]

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

(Depends on the translation, but the meaning is more or less the same)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

"Well, I've got this thing with Pioneer," Anderson said.

"I almost fell off my chair," Nieto said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=10&u=/latimests/20041221/ts_latimes/gravitymayloseitspull

 

[Ivan Seeking]

In fact, I like this one from Anderson even better.

But somehow, the choice one makes affects one’s outlook and direction of attack. If one has to consider new physics one should be open to both points of view. In the unlikely event that there is new physics, one does not want to miss it because one had the wrong mind set.

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0104/0104064.pdf

 

[dextercioby]

ODERINT,DUM METUANT!

Caius Cicero,"Phillipicae",17.

Daniel.


PS.An unofficial translation in English would be:"Let them hate me,but at least fear me!".In Romanian it sounds:"Sa ma urasca,dar sa se teama de mine!".

 

[stoned]

"If you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America, you're given a front-row seat"
George Carlin.

 

[Mk]

I didn't read everything but I"m sure someone mentioned that a "Your Favorite Quote" thread was posted a few weeks ago.

 

[zanazzi78]

Any Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotations
"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what mymother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he could.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

-- The Book just racapping what happened in the last book.

"`Hand me the rap-rod, Plate Captain.'
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him. `Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.'"


-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people in the Universe.

my favourite Hitchhiker`s quote;

"buttons aren`t toys!"

 

[zanazzi78]

I didn't read everything but I"m sure someone mentioned that a "Your Favorite Quote" thread was posted a few weeks ago.

You are right. In fact this is the 3rd "Favourite quotes! thread i`ve read since joining PF.

I`ve probably posted these before but I`ll subject you all to my sense of humour again;

On the back of a box of matches;
"The hardest thing in life is convice a woman than even a bargin costs money"

Some Oscar Wilde quotes i like:

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Now for my favourite science quotes:

"Much like a great work of art ,a beatiful equation has among its attributes much more than mere attractiveness - it will have universality, simplicity, inevitablity and an elemental power." - words written by Graham Farmelo in the book It must be Beatufull, Great Equations of Modern Science.

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Einstien

"The measure of a being of a man of my type, lies not in what he thinks and how he thinks but in what he does and suffers." - Einstein

 

[quantumdude]

"Seeing the universe through the eyes of a child is easy. Actually catching a child and removing his eyes, now that's the hard part."
--Can't recall the source, but Another God used it as a sig line.

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. Whey they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
--Frank Sinatra

"Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way down to the bone."
--Billy Connolly

"The jerk store called, they're running out of YOU."
--George Costanza

"I'd rather let 1000 guilty men go free than chase after them."
--Chief Wiggum

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
--Carl Sagan

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
--Richard Feynman

"He who laughs last, thinks slowest."
--Seen on a T-shirt

"If you can't laugh at yourself, then can you at least keep quiet while I laugh at you?"
--Tom Mattson

 

[Lisa!]

"If unbron people knew what's going on in this world, they would never come to this world!" -A scientist

"Someone should die. In order the rest value the life more" -Nicole Kidman in Hours

"Who could you laugh at if there were no stupid person in this world?" -Me

 

[Kazza_765]

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
--Richard Feynman

I can't believe I haven't heard that one before. I'm going to use that .

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Reported tonight on Washington Week, on PBS.

A source close to the Bush administration stated: "George Bush is the kind of person who, if he were sitting next to you at a dinner, you'd be looking over his shoulder for someone more interesting.

and continued... "We are now in the post Bush republican era".

That's the best quote that I've heard in six years.

 

[1123581321]

" You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other son-of-a-***** die for his."

Gen. George Patton
if i ever becomea contributer that will be my signature.
and my avatar will be the guy from monty python and the holy grail who makes the horse clop noise.

 

[Smurf]

"Someday, on your tombstone, there will be two dates - and nobody realizes that all that mattered to you was that small dash inbetween"

" You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other son-of-a-***** die for his."

Gen. George Patton
if i ever becomea contributer that will be my signature.

Think that says something about a person?

 

[Evo]

One of my favorite quotes is by Einstein "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Another favorite is by Matt Groening of the Simpsons - "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

 

[matthyaouw]

"Someday, on your tombstone, there will be two dates - and nobody realizes that all that mattered to you was that small dash inbetween"

I like that. Who said it?

 

[Astronuc]

Professor's response to his students who were complaining that the problems and work was too hard!

"It's supposed to be hard.

If it was easy, then nobody would pay you to solve the problem!"

 

[scott_alexsk]

"You know, I got a real warm feeling from that lady talkin' about how she adopted all of those children or was that just the booze?"
-unknown

 

[Lisa!]

I'm abit romantic today, so:

"I love you not because of who you are,
But because of who I am when I'm with you...
No man or woman is worth your tears,
And the one who is won't make you cry.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean that they don't love you with all they have...
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand,
and touches your heart.


The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting
Right beside them knowing that you can't have them.
Never frown, even when you are sad,
Because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
To the world you may be one person,
But to one person, you may be the world.

Don't waste your time on a man or woman
Who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
Maybe God wanted us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one.
So that when we finally meet the right person,
We will know how to be grateful...
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened...
There's always going to be people that hurt you. "

I guess that's Paolo Coelo's(did I spell his name correctly?:shy:)

 

[Astronuc]

Nice poem Lisa!

Close enough on Coelho's name - http://www.paulocoelho.com/engl/

Read the "Fifth Mountain" - very intense.

"In order to love someone, one has to know the someone." - ancient wisdom

Never frown, even when you are sad,
Because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
To the world you may be one person,
But to one person, you may be the world.

Very good perspective to keep in mind

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Dormio, ergo dubito (I dream, therefor I doubt)

Last night I was falling. Or so it seemed. I considered that when I reached the ground I would die. But then I awoke and was safe in my bed. Or so it seemed.

 

[Vincent Vega]

From Boondocks:

"The absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence." __ Gin Rummy

"There are known knowns, and there are known unknowns, but there are unknown unknowns. Things that we don't know that we don't know." __ Gin Rummy

 

[Garth]

Lady Astor [First woman member of the British Parliament (although originally American)] meeting Winston Churchill coming out of a wartime 'all night sitting' -
"Sir you are drunk!"

Winston Churchill -
"And you madam are ugly, but in the morning I shall wake up sober."

Garth

 

[Astronuc]

Some quotes from Eugene Wigner

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

[While] solipsism may be logically consistent with present quantum mechanics, monism in the sense of materialism is not.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

from creative quotes

 

[heartless]

I have many favorite quotes on many subjects, but here are some of the one s about life that I like:

"No child should be permitted to grow up without an excercise for imagination" - Mark Twain

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and... I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

"... but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man." - E.B White

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry Thoreau

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." - unknown

Thanks,

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I've heard it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game is the losers refrain, this is BS, if you take that simple message to heart in life and the game it implies you won't go far wrong.

Lifes a beach, but just when you get used to the water, the tide goes out.

There are more questions than answers, but the more I find out the less I know.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Some people would rather die than think: some people do.

as you can tell I'm a bit of Bertrand Russel fan, although not all of them are his quotes.

 

[jimmie]

Perhaps, the only flaw in the universe was my perception of the universe.

Beauty is all that is, and that is all it is.

That is the only way: Rightintent.

Create your own quote.

jimmie

 

[kahless2005]

That Patton Quote is one of my favourtes. I also really enjoyed that Robin Williams one on page 1.

"I READ YOUR BOOK!" -Patton to Rommel after defeating Rommel

Back off man, I'm a scientist- Peter Venkman

Listen, do you smell something? - Ray Stanz

What did you do Ray? - Peter Venkman

 

[0TheSwerve0]

Buffy: It's about power. (Lessons)