Fight for those you have lost, and for those you don’t want to lose.
—Unknown
We were supremely lucky to be born into this precise moment in history. It is with an ever-cresting crescendo of wonder and enthusiasm that I commend you to the great adventure and the great adventure to you.
—Unknown
There’s no such thing as a human who doesn’t commit sin. It’s not like the world is divided into sinners and the innocent. There are only people who can and who cannot atone for their sins.
—Unknown
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
—Philip K. Dick (1928–82) American Writer, Science Fiction Author
Truth is not always popular, but it is always right.
—Anonymous
How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
—Jacqueline Carey (b.1964) Canadian Writer, Novelist
A wizard may have subtle ways of telling the truth, and may keep the truth to himself, but if he says a thing the thing is as he says. For that is his mastery.
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b.1929) American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer
Adultery always begins with the adulterer(s) claiming to themselves and to others that the relationship is “harmless” because it hasn’t crossed a certain line. The line where it becomes wrong is the line where you start having to rationalize like that.
—Unknown
Thus the freer the judgement of a man is in regard to a definite issue, with so much greater necessity will the substance of this judgement be determined.
—Friedrich Engels (1820–95) German Socialist Political Philosopher
Lack of communication leads to 90% of all problems.
—Tonbo
In both poker and life, you can’t read people any better than they can read themselves. You can, if you’re good, very accurately determine if they think their hand is good, or if they think they know the answer to your legal question. But you can’t be sure if reality differs from their perception.
—Unknown
If you do not wish a thing heard, do not say it.
—John M. Ford (1957–2006) American Novelist, Writer, Poet
People can’t predict how long they will be happy with recently acquired objects, how long their marriages will last, how their new jobs will turn out, yet it’s subatomic particles that they cite as “limits of prediction”. They’re ignoring a mammoth standing in front of them in favor of matter even a microscope would not allow them to see.
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b.1960) Lebanese-American Scholar, Statistician
The best part about math is that, if you have the right answer and someone disagrees with you, it really is because they’re stupid.
—Unknown
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
—Rene Descartes (1596–1650) French Mathematician, Philosopher
I feel more like I do now than I did a while ago.
—Unknown
I’ve found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.
—Paul Graham (b.1964) English Programmer, Investor
My father said whoever tells the longest story is always the liar. The truth isn’t that complicated.
—Bill Joy (b.1954) American Computer Engineer, Investor
Some people know better, and they still make the mistake. That’s when ignorance becomes stupidity.
—Unknown
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
We take almost all of the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
—Unknown
In any war there are always more of the enemy than you think, and there are always allies you never knew you had.
—John M. Ford (1957–2006) American Novelist, Writer, Poet
It takes 50 years for your parents to mature enough that they see you as an independent person.
—Unknown
Even if I had an objective proof that you don’t find it unpleasant when you stick your hand in a fire, I still think you’d pull your hand out at the first opportunity.
—Unknown
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way… Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.
—Steven Brust (b.1955) American Fantasy Novelist
Our brains live in a dark, quiet, wet place. That is the reality. It is only by means of our senses that we get the illusion of being out there in the world. In a way, our bodies are a form of telepresence, operated by our brains, huddling safe in their little caves of bone.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky (b.1979) American Scientist
Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars – caged. I am not Saying there shouldn’t be prisons, but there shouldn’t be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He never will get completely over the memory of the bars.
—Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader
Faith is Hope given too much credit.
—Unknown
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
—Unknown
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