A collection of quotations I liked.

  • “The best swordsman does not fear the second best. He fears the worst since there’s no telling what that idiot is going to do” ― Fred R. Shapiro (orig. Mark Twain?)
  • “If I choose to live a modest life, I’m a free man. If I’m forced to live a modest life, I’m a slave.” - Moni Ovadia
  • “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” — Andre Gide
  • “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —Max Lucado #insightful#
  • If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. - Thomas Pynchon, “Gravity’s Rainbow”
  • “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” - T. E. Lawrence
  • “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night.” - Edgar Allen Poe
  • “Imagining the Future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” -John Green
  • “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Nietzsche
  • “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift” -Steve Prefontaine
  • “Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.” –George Carlin
  • “Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.” — Bill Belichick
  • “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” – Deepak Chopra
  • “If very few of us have read The Origin of the Species from end to end, it is not because it overtaxes our mind, but because we take in the whole case and are prepared to accept it long before we have come to the end of the innumerable instances and illustrations of which the book mainly consists. Darwin becomes tedious in the manner of a man who insists on continuing to prove his innocence after he has been acquitted. You assure him that there is not a stain on his character, and beg him to leave the court; but he will not be content with enough evidence to acquit him: he will have you listen to all the evidence that exists in the world.” - George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Back to Methuselah, p. xlviii
  • “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” #insightful#
  • My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. - Aldous Huxley #good-lines#
  • “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” — Elinor Smith
  • “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - M. Curie
  • ”It’s difficult to get a man to understand some thing when his Salary depends on his not understanding it.“ - Upton Sinclair
  • The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. —Donald Norman