Good quotes are explosive. There's a novel hiding in every good quote. Well, here's a good collection of subversive quotes from Vagabox. It includes many of my favorites and many that I hadn't read before. Here's a tiny sampling from a large collection: The police are not here to create…
I collect my favorites from various sources, though I was reminded of many of these quotes by The Quotations Page (which offers quotes of the day). There is a condensed book in every good quote:
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg (1933 – ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
Pat Conroy (1945 – )
It’s not a matter of whether or not someone’s watching over you. It’s just a question of their intentions.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 – 1957)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.…
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) [Thanks go to The Quotations Page for this one].
I do love quotes! A novel in every sentence, as I see it.
I’ve been collecting quotes for years. These are quotes that I noticed or noticed anew over the past six months. There’s no particular theme here, though many of these do concern education/enlightenment:
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner , New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
“We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
Navajo proverb
I reviewed about six sources for quotes to find quotes about journalism and media. Here are some of my favorites. People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. -- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963) To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline…