Favorite Quotes

This is a collection of quotes that I found profound or interestion. Enjoy

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society” - Theodore Roosevelt

“I write you a long letter because I’m too damn angry to write you a short one.” - Blaise Pascal

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” - Dr. Seuss

“There are two ways to live: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other as if everything is.” - Albert Einstein

“For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.” - The Icarus Hunt, by Timothy Zahn

“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard Aiken

“Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.” - Larry Niven, The Mote in God’s Eye

“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.” - Bill Vaughan

_I blinked at her. “Uh, I find I’m astonished again. How is this place run? Is it an anarchy?” Hazel shrugged. Justin Foote looked thoughtful. “No I wouldn’t say so. It is not that well organized.”__ - Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Mowery’s Observation: “It’s hard to make things foolproof because fools are so darn ingenious.” - Dave Mowery

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Be boring and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” - Gustave Flaubert

“Who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” - Thomas Jefferson

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” - Sir Terry Pratchett

“Political correctness is a doctrine that holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end” - Harry truman

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.” - Nicholas Murray Butler

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” - Robert A. Heinlein

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain

“In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” - Yogi Berra

“People need to be reminded more than to be instructed” - Samuel Johnson

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” - Henry Ford

”‘Follow your dreams’? Fuck your dreams! Try stuff and see what makes you happy.” - Richard Campbell

“It’s lonely at the top. 99% of people are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most competitive.” - Tim Ferriss

“We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at.” - Mark Manson

“All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is small.” - David Schwartz

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” - Thomas J. Watson

“Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.” - Scott Adams