Below are some miscellaneous quotes I've collected:
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"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." "What is now proved was only once imagined." "I wish you all the luck - a butterfly in the wind without a care." "To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves." "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." "To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream." "Some men see things that are, and ask 'Why?' "Men stumble over the truth time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." reality.sys is corrupt. Reboot Universe? "When action grows unprofitable, gather information; "It is good to have an end to journey towards; "Flight of the sea birds, "The issues of where and when does who spend how much on what and whom have been largely ignored." "The problem is, every time something goes wrong, the paperwork is found in order..." "The easiest way to predict the future is to invent it." "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." "To see a World in a Grain of Sand "My coffin will be Heaven and Earth; for the funeral ornaments of jade, there are the Sun and Moon; for my pearls and jewels, I shall have the Stars and Constellations; all things will be my mourners. Is not everything ready for my burial?" "We learn something from everyone, though we don't always realize we're learning, and they don't always know they're teaching." "The best time to plant an oak tree is twenty years ago.The next best time is right now!" "It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you." "But what we need is to see those other things beyond intelligence. Insight. Compassion. Wisdom. Mere intelligence per se is dime a dozen - it doesn't interest me, doesn't impress me. Creativity has always been a tension between insanity and wisdom. What we're looking for is this combination of insanity and wisdom that's called fantastic vision." SUCCESS "If you have to test something carefully enough to see if it is making a difference, then it is not making enough of a difference in the first place." "Half of me is ocean, "The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." "Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe is already discovered and known?" "Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether if flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch. Even when the bulbs of the hourglass shatter, when darkness withholds the shadow from the sundial, when the mainspring winds down so far that the clock hands hold still as death, time itself keeps on. The most we can hope a watch to do is mark that progress. And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don’t really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they’re able." "With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth temporal dimension to link points on the three dimensional globe. He wrested the worlds whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch." "Myths are public dreams, broadly shared. But myths without perspective, myths without authority, are fairy tales." "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." "Never walk on something you can walk over, "All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." "Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny." "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." "A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams." "Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck." "Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily." "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our Attitude." The Present "Our language, our vocabulary, shapes, controls, and limits the thoughts we are able to think." "The best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all other fellows busy working." Quia frustra fit per plura quod potest equaliter fieri per pauciona. Asynchrony: When events do not always occur one after the other in a predictable way. "And on a good day, my mind is like the country...green wide open…a breath of zen that's nice on the eyes, lonely, without a prayer." "Try? There is no try… there is only do and not do." "In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”" "Success breeds success formulas; success formulas breed failure. Big companies have it down to a formula. They have policies and procedures for everything, and they can hire average people and still do well because it’s like a well-oiled machine. And the bigger they get, the more average the employees get, and eventually they become drones." "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; however the sailor simply adjusts the sails." "Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder." "There is no spoon." "You hear that sound, Mr. Anderson? That's the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death." "You take the BLUE PILL, you wake up in your own bed, and you believe what you want to believe. You take the RED PILL, you stay in WONDERLAND, and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." "To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human." "The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well." "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking." "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." "A woman's greatest asset is a man's imagination." "He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers" "Many a painter would have given half of what he possessed to have been able to catch the fading tints of the red and golden sunset we had last night... All I say is, if you wish to see Nature robed in her mantle of might, look at a storm at sea; if you want to see her robed in her mantle of glory, look at a sunset at sea." "Lottery: a self-imposed tax on those who can't do math." "Whenever there is a conservative, bible waving half-wit ruling in the White House - whether it's Bush, his father or Reagan - there is war."
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