Wednesday, December 3, 2008

some quotes that i found to be interesting :)


"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear"
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)


"Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them"
Dickinson Richards quotes


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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?"
Freeman Dyson quotes (English Physicist, b.1923)


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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
Douglas Adams quotes (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)


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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)


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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)


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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes (American writer and aviation pioneer, 1906-2001)


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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny"
Tryon Edwards quotes (American Theologian, 1809-1894)


"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
Thomas S. Szasz quotes (Hungarian psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, b.1920)



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