| Miscellaneous Quotes (Page 4) | |||||
| George Orwell | |||||
| Who controls the past commands the future. Who commands the future conquers the past. | |||||
| T.S. Eliot | |||||
| We
shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploration Will be to arrive where we started And to know the place for the first time |
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| Albert Einstein | |||||
| Sometimes what counts can't be counted, and what can be counted doesn't count. | |||||
| This is not really a quote in the traditional sense, but is still pretty interesting | |||||
| One of the most famous, if not the most well-known, of Plato's stories is the allegory of the cave. In this discussion, Plato speaks of people living in a cave for whom reality is represented by the shadows cast on the inner cave wall. | |||||
| Essentially, the people have their backs to the cave entrance and see the world in terms of a shadow play that is projected onto the inner wall. The sad part of all this is that they never will know true reality until they turn around, walk to the cave entrance, and step out of the cave . . . if they dare. | |||||
| Jonathan Swift | |||||
| Whoever makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind than any speculative philosopher or metaphysical system builder. | |||||
| Bernard Shaw | |||||
| Life is not a brief candle. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it to future generations. | |||||
| Lin Yutang | |||||
| Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. | |||||
| Lin Yutang | |||||
| A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going. A perfect traveler does not know here he came from. | |||||
| Antiphanes | |||||
| Two things only a man cannot hide; that he is drunk and that he's in love. | |||||
| Dorothy Parker | |||||
| Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. | |||||
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