Showing posts with label Galileo Galilei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galileo Galilei. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotaria

"I have never met a man so ignorant that
I couldn't learn something from him."
- Galileo Galilei


"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue
that I shall some day die, which is not so."
- Stephen Leacock

"Indecision may or may
not be my problem."
- Jimmy Buffett

"My Father had a profound influence
on me, he was a lunatic."
- Spike Milligan

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience,
loyalty, and the importance of turning around
three times before lying down."
- Robert Benchley

"Here's a rule I recommend: Never
practice two vices at once."
- Tallulah Bankhead

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotaria

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


I'm kind of jealous of the
life I'm supposedly leading.
- Zach Braff

Nothing is as simple as
we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning


If the human mind was simple
enough to understand, we'd be
too simple to understand it.
- Emerson Pugh


All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei


Curious things, habits.
People themselves never
knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie

Friday, March 27, 2009

Quotaria

Luke Skywalker: Alright, I'll give it a try.
Yoda: No! Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back


Some national parks have long waiting
lists for camping reservations. When
you have to wait a year to sleep next
to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin

"Architecture is the art
of how to waste space."
- Philip Johnson

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can
only help him to find it within himself."
- Galileo

"We're born alone, we live alone, we
die alone. Only through our love and
friendship can we create the illusion
for the moment that we're not alone."
- Orson Welles

Some of the worst mistakes of
my life have been haircuts.
- Jim Morrison

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Quotes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness
is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi

It is too difficult to think nobly when
one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My formula for success is rise
early, work late, and strike oil.
- Jean Paul Getty

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find
it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
- Sam Ewing

I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei

"There is no moral precept that does not
have something inconvenient about it."
- Denis Diderot