Showing posts with label Ursula K. LeGuin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ursula K. LeGuin. Show all posts

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, September 22, 2008

Quotes

"The less you know, the
more you believe."
- Bono

"Three minutes thought would suffice to
find this out; but thought is irksome
and three minutes is a long time."
- A.E. Houseman

"When action grows unprofitable, gather information;
when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
- Ursula K. LeGuin

"The supreme irony of life is that
hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
- Robert Heinlein

"Somewhere, for everyone, there is that person, who,
inside their mind, carries the memories of a person's
soul so that they might never be forgotten, and in that,
we are all immortal."
- Julie Randolph

"With doubt and dismay you are smitten,
You think that there's no chance for you, son?
Why the best books haven't been written,
The best race hasn't been run."
- Berton Braley