"You live once, but if you work it right, once is enough."
"All I know is that I know nothing." - Socrates
"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do." - Jack Sparrow, Curse of the Black Pearl
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
"[Science] teaches the value of rational thought as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that the lessons are all true." - Richard Feynman
"[not] to preach or exhort or praise or condemn, only to illuminate... The philosopher can do no more than make as clear as he can what is at stake. But that is to do a very great deal." - Berlin (1982:19)
Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is the principle that "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). Popular interpretation: the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. (Occam’s Razor) - William of Occam (c. 1285-1349), English Franciscan friar and philosopher
"The future has several names.
For the weak, it is the impossible.
For the fainthearted, it is the unknown.
For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal."
- Victor Hugo
"My grandmother taught me that the world is magic and that all the rest is man's delusion of greatness, given that we control almost nothing, know very little and have only to take a quick look at history to understand the limits of the rational."
- Isabel Allende in "The sum of our days"
Ted Mosby (How I met your Mother): "When you date someone, it's like you're taking one long course in who that person is, and then when you break up, all that stuff becomes useless. It's the emotional equivalent of an English degree."
Boss: "If everybody's wrong, why are you always right?"
House: "I'm not. I just find it difficult to operate under the opposite assumption."
The two worst strategic mistakes are: acting prematurely and acting too late. To avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. - Paulo Coelho
"Champions do not become champions when they win the event; but in the hours, weeks, months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character." - T. Alan Armstrong
"If I could explain it, I wouldn't have danced it." - Margot Fonteyn upon being asked after a performance to explain the dance.
"No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself." - Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." - Leopold Stokowski
"We do not see the world as it is, but we see the world as we are." - C. S. Lewis
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
- Igor Stravinsky
"Two roads diverged in the middle of my life,
I heard a wise man say
I took the road less traveled by
And that's made the difference every night and every day."
- Larry Norman (with apologies to Robert Frost)
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
"Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do." - Joan L. Curio (American writer)
"Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies" - Friedrich Nietzsche
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - John F Kennedy
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
- Hermann Hesse ((July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi), each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.)
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J Fox
"Genius might have it's limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - Elbert Hubbard
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes." - Edgard Varese
"Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson
"Without music life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use." - Soren Kierkegaard
"'n Vraag wat my soms mal maak, is: is ék of die ander mense mal?" - Albert Einstein
"Die wêreld is 'n gevaarlike plek, nie a.g.v. mense wat boos is nie, maar a.g.v. mense wat niks daaraan doen nie." - Albert Einstein
"Die verskil tussen dwaasheid en wysheid is dat wysheid beperkinge het." - Albert Einstein
"I must give up everything else to develop and cultivate the germ that God has planted in me." - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"As mense net goed is omdat hulle bang is vir straf en hoop om beloon te word, dan is ons inderdaad 'n patetiese lotjie." - Albert Einstein
"Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that in happening causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though." - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin
"Hy dink daaraan dat hy dikker boeke moet begin lees: hulle hou langer, en hulle maak gemakliker kussings." - Die Alchemis (Paulo Coelho)
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." - Albert Einstein
"Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” - Lewis Carroll
"Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid." - Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Carribean: The Black Pearl
"Moenie vir die bus wag by die treinstasie nie."
If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. - Nikola Tesla
"May your swords stay sharp and your arrows fly true..."
Shalom in Hebrew means "to be safe, to be complete, nothing missing, nothing broken, secure, free from strife, satisfied, unharmed, unhurt."
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." - Babara J. Winter
"I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am." - John Newton (1725-1807)
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) German philosopher and poet "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - John F. Kennedy speaking about Theodore Roosevelt
"In the fields of observation, chance favours only the mind that is prepared." - Louis Pasteur
"True power includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to caltivate higher, more effective onces." - George Bernard Shaw
"Elke man het vir sy eie voordeel 'n beroep, maar wanneer dit tot sy ewemens se voordeel strek, word dit 'n roeping." - C. J. Langenhoven
Oath of La Justicia: "To seek justice, nourish the hungry, clothe the naked, protect widows and orphans, give shelter to the stranger, and never spill innocent blood."
"Finally, when he had successfully overcome every obstacle, he was led to an altar. There he saw the symbols he must venerate: a loaf of bread, a scale, a sword, a chalice and a rose. The bread symbolized the obligation to help the poor; the scale represented the determination to fight for justice; the sword represented courage; the chalice held the elixir of compassion; and the rose reminded the members of the secret society that life is not only sacrifice and labor, it is also beautiful, and for that reason alone must be defended." - Zorro, Isabel Allende
"He felt on fire; he was red in the face and steaming sweat, but his adversary was not even breathing hard and his face was as tranquil as it had been at the beginning of the match. Manuel Escalante's words came to mind: "Never fight in anger." - Zorro, Isabel Allende
"Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen."
- John Le Carre
"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most. Your playing small does not serve the world, there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine like children do. It is not just in some of us, it is in all of us. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others the permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear our presence automatically liberates others."
"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
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