Showing posts with label Mahatma Gandhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mahatma Gandhi. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotaria

I object to violence because when it appears
to do good, the good is only temporary; the
evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The ability to delude yourself may
be an important survival tool."
- Jane Wagner

"Memory is more indelible than ink."
- Anita Loos

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself,
it is time for others to laugh at him."
- Thomas Szasz


"I don't deserve this award, but I have
arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
- Jack Benny

"In America, through pressure of conformity, there
is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
- Peter Ustinov

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quotes

Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

You probably wouldn't worry about what
people think of you if you could know
how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller

I believe that a scientist looking
at nonscientific problems is just
as dumb as the next guy.
- Richard Feynman

Freedom is not worth having if it does
not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a
human brain being controlled remotely, then it could
be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
- John Alejandro King

Lawyers spend a great deal of
their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes - Oneliner

"We are what we believe we are."
- C. S. Lewis


"Justice is truth in action."
- Benjamin Disraeli


"Sound is the vocabulary of nature."
- Pierre Schaeffer

"I could prove God statistically."
- George Gallup


I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Fiction is after truth."
- Flannery O'Connor

Quotaria

"The more you know the
less you need to say."
- Jim Rohn

"What matters isn't being applauded when you
arrive, but being missed when you leave.
- Baltasar Gracian

"I was born lost and take no
pleasure in being found."
- John Steinbeck

"Like most women of my generation, when things
go well, it's due to outside factors; when they
go wrong, it's my fault."
- Dr. Susan Styer

"Love is the strongest force in the world,
yet it's the humblest imaginable."
- Mahatma Gandhi

We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Luciano Crescenzo

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

"What we observe is not nature itself, but
nature exposed to our method of questioning."
- Werner Heisenberg

"The only questions that really matter
are the ones you ask yourself."
- Ursula Le Guin

"The scientific mind does not so much provide
the right answers as ask the right questions.’
- Claude Levi-Strauss

Don't be afraid of death so
much as an inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with
someone who knows what he's talking about.
- Sam Ewing

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

True greatness consists in the use of
a powerful understanding to enlighten
oneself and others.
- Voltaire

Taking a new step, uttering a new
word, is what people fear most.
- Dostoyevsky

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the
word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger;
the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
- Richard Nixon

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew
before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac, English physicist in US (1902 - 1984)

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a
difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing
it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?
- Brady

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