Favorite quotes

[deicruxified]

i was browsing the haiku thread with the "i'm-not-judgemental" line so i guess you could help me on compiling your intj punch lines...

here's mine:

i am not tactless.. i'm just being brutally honest.

[vulcan]

Strike the brutally. Honest is honest.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle.

[mind_wander]

Truth does hurts, do you really want to hear the truth coming from me?

[Panthera]

nice one vulcan

[Figmentum]

"Simple thought, effective truth." - Me

[TruorTupnm]

"Strength and stupidity in numbers."
"You're either an Outcast, or you're in denial."

- Myself

[jtskinner]

"It's not that your wrong, it's that your stupid." Or maybe "I'm always right even when I'm wrong". Serious quotes, I would say "I will prevail", "I seek the light of knowledge". My favorite quote, went something like: "Truth and falsehood were bathing in a lake, falsehood went out of the lake and seeing the clothes of truth wore them as her own. Truth stepped out of the lake, and seeing that only the clothes of falsehood remained she went around naked for she did not wish to wear the clothing of falsehood.", also I like "a strong person is like a waterfall they channel their own path".

[Ian]

I never make threats - I make decisions. Me.

[orange]

"It's not my fault that you're wrong." -me (I dont think I stole that one)

[Henry]

"It's not my fault that you're wrong." -me (I dont think I stole that one)

Curious. My exact signature on another forum is "Its not my fault that you're a dumbass".

[orange]

"It's not my fault that you're wrong." -me (I dont think I stole that one)

Curious. *My exact signature on another forum is "Its not my fault that you're a dumbass".

ROFL.. never saw that sig. I promise.

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3 diffrent Call of Duty2 clans

[Evalind]

"If you end an estimate in the number 7, people are more likely to believe it. I don't know why, but they are." -my Dad.

[jtskinner]

"As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean"

[The Many]

Nietzsche has way too many quotes to remember, and he was an INTJ. There are really too many good INTJ quotes out there though; most verbal INTJs tend to be very good speakers. I have a one-liner of my own which I particularly like - it says: "No future lies in the past".

[jtskinner]

"It is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" - Satan/Lucifer famous INTJ :thumbsup: :-X
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. " - Socrates(Plato's Apology)

[stuntgp2000]

"Don't wait for an opportunity, create yours"

by Med Berdai

[GOD]

When I was 20 I stated that "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally"...

But it seems that some politician in the US beat me to it... arse.

I made up the slang word "POG".... which I leveled at some of the girls I absolutely despised at school (I was about 13)... It’s formed from PIG and DOG. lol... it’s in the urban dictionary. But not used much.

[cielo market]

"Si en este mundo quedan sueños que alcanzar ¿por qué despertar? Podrías revelar caminos en tu soledad..."
"If there are dreams yet to be reached in this world, why wake up? You could reveal paths in your solitude"

(sounds better in spanish i guess)

It sounds INTJ to me, since we're always indulged in thought

[leet1337]

"I don't need to "Get a Life" , I'm a gamer I have lots of lives"

~Me (INTJ)

[deicruxified]

here are some i got somewhere

1. you laugh at me because i'm different. i laugh at you because you are all the same.

2. get a life not mine

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god kicked me out of heaven? the truth is, i kicked him and was just lucky to have landed in a soft spot up there.

[deicruxified]

"It's not my fault that you're wrong." -me (I dont think I stole that one)

Curious. *My exact signature on another forum is "Its not my fault that you're a dumbass".
hahaha we really are intj's.. mine was, "it's not my fault... you're born stupid to begin with" then i have "stupidity personified as you"

[deicruxified]

an infp friend wrote something about me as an intj:

"intj's are something to treasure because they're the complete set of friends incarnated in one person. with intj friends, who needs enemies?"

[dayguard]

1. you laugh at me because i'm different. i laugh at you because you are all the same.

I really love this quote ;D

[Henry]

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No I doubt you didn't. I was commenting on how interesting

What's your line of work? I currently handle litigated or attoney represented homeowners insurance claims, a huge proportion of which involve the homeowner doing something stupid, the company refusing to pay for it, and then the homeowner incurring 20k in legal costs and losing. And the venting point? Me. Hence "Its not my fault that you're a dumbass", as that's what I want to say 3-4 times per day.

[rwyatt365]

"You're talking to me as if I give a shit." - Me

[Ian]

Posted by: rwyatt365 Posted on: Today at 2:05pm
"You're talking to me as if I give a shit." - Me *


Nice one, this is a very useful phrase - I use it too, along with:

"I am not interested in what you can't do"

It really annoys me when you ask for something to be done and all you get back is 'I can't do that because....' whining.

It is also a slightly more acceptable response than the alternative 'Stop making excuses and just f'ing do it you half-wit', that I would often prefer to use but which might cause offence *;D

[Phiophile]

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. - Plato

Sometimes we build walls around ourselves, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. - Unknown

He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple - Teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - Awaken him.
He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise - Follow him. - Chinese proverb

Collecting interesting quotes is a hobby of mine. I have a huge notepad file full of them.

[bucolic_]

If you asked one of my co-workers to quote me, it might be...

"Good"

Since that's about all they hear from me :D (In response to "how are you doing")

[justmeiguess]

I too collect quotes, so here are a few that fit:

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
(Aristotle) - I know someone's already posted this, but it's good so deserves repeating.

"Wit is educated insolence."
(Aristotle)

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
(Rene Descartes)

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
(Aldous Huxley)

“You're not entitled to your own opinion. You're only entitled to your own informed opinion.”
(Harlan Ellison)

I also like this one:

“Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.”
(Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife)

[deicruxified]

i'm a "the godfather" freak

He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon.
- vito corleone

My father's name was Antonio Andolini... and this is for you *stabs*
- vito corleone

keep your friends close but your enemies closer
- vito corleone

i'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse
- vito corleone (... lol... i said this once already to someone)

"But I'm a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him - If he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell - or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning, them I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But, that aside, let me say that I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we've made here today."
- vito corleone

"I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life--I don't apologize--to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don't apologize--that's my life--but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. [Michael: Another pezzonovante] Well, this wasn't enough time, Michael. It wasn't enough time. [Michael: We'll get there, pop. We'll get there.]"
- vito corleone

"So the next day, my father went to see him; only this time with Luca Brasi. An' within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1000. [Kay: "How'd he do that?"] My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. [Kay: "What was that?"] Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract. That's a true story. That's my family, Kay, it's not me."
- michael corleone

"Today I settled all Family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo."
- michael corleone

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all things are nothing to me... i am not not nothing in the sense of emptiness. but i am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which i myself as creator create everything
- max stirner (the philosopher nietzsche often reads and according to some scholars, the mind he plagiarized like with zarathustra)

[Rei]

"You know less than you think you know, but more than you know you know." - me

[Charlie Mc.]

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -Heinlein (probably my favorite quote)

Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance - Marine Corps saying (also known as the 7p's)

A failure to plan on your part does not constitute a crisis on mine - Saying on a supervisors desk

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups - Marine corps saying

[Nomad]

If it's stupid, and it works, it isn't stupid.
-Murphy's laws of combat.

We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
-Don't know

[Charlie Mc.]

the Marine Corps has a version of the last one.

We have been doing so much with so little for so long, we are expected to do everything with nothing forever.- Marine Corps saying

I believe the first part of the quote you gave comes from draftees in the Vietnam war,

[Paul V]

"Stop wasting my time! I'm trying to solve a problem here!" (Said as if you actually meant "I'm trying to save the world here!")

"What makes you think I want to hear what you have to say?" (To a person who has offended me)

"You'd understand me if you had a mind of your own." (To someone criticising my ways)

"You see, compassion is something you can only truly understand if you have a soul." (To a person who laughs at the misfortune of others)

"Fearing the inevitable is senseless." (When asked why I'm not afraid of Death)

"C'mon, people, we have a plan to follow." (To my teammates, in most games we play)

-Me.

Not from me:

"Sometimes we build walls around ourselves, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." - Unknown

Describes my inner self perfectly.

[Charlie Mc.]

"If you look really deep into my eyes, I mean really search the depths of my soul, you still won't see me care." -Me

Related
"If you listen very carefully to what I say, you still won't hear me care."

Another one of my favorites
"Wish in one hand and piss in the other, see which one fills up faster."
or
"take all his "potential" in one hand and S#!^ in the other, rub them together and tell me what it smells like" - Me to a girl dating a total loser who she insists has "potential"

[Nomad]

"And your point would be?"

My friend K.

"You don't have to like it, You just have to do it"
Military maxim

-Nomad

[Headstrong]

Here are a bunch I've collected. Most of them I chose just for personal meaning, but some can be applied to the INTJ mentality.

"Draw a line. Live above it."

"The only people you need in your life are the ones that proved they needed you in theirs."

"Tell me my dreams are unrealistic, and I'll tell you yours aren't big enough."

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period." -The Pursuit of Happiness

"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinion, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." -Harvey Firestone

"You have to stand for what you believe in. And sometimes you have to stand alone ." -Queen Latifah

"Our best decisions, the ones that we never regret, come from listening to ourselves." -Felicity

"If you are afraid of criticism . say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."

"In life God does not give you the people you want. He gives you the people you need ; to teach you, to hurt you, to love you, to make you laugh...to make you exactly the person you should be."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."- Victoria Holt

"When one lives without fear one cannot be broken." -James Fry

"You shouldn't have to sacrifice who you are just because somebody else has a problem with it." -Sex and the City

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -Dorothy Nevill

"Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny

[amei]

My saying of choice lately - "Logic. It's a good thing. More people should use it."
All time favorite - "Do the thing you think you cannot do" Eleanor Roosevelt

[Max T]

Only Connect.
(E.M.Forster).

Two men look out through the same bars,
One sees the mud and one the stars.
(F. Langbridge).

I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
(W.E. Henley).

The man who makes no mistakes
Does not usually make anything.
(E.J.Phelps).

Far too numerous is the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much.
(Alexander Pope).

When we are born we cry
That we have come to this great stage of fools.
(W. Shakespeare).

Never fool yourself, and remember
That you are the easiest person to fool.
(Richard Feynman).

Everything's got a moral
If only you can find it.
(L. Carroll)

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
(W.H.Davies).


... and my little one I try to live by (no doubt better written by someone):
Give more than you take and, over time,
You will be given more than you can receive.

[Night]

"Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees."

Emiliano Zapata

"Richard was rich —yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head."

Edwin Arlington Robinson

[janonymous]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Hell is full of good intentions, or desires." -St. Bernard
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses." -Dag Hammarskjold
"Using no way as way...no limitation as limitation." -Bruce Lee
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." -Ghandi
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -Ghandi
"I got a macaroni necklace...I got valuable sh!t." -Dave Chappelle
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -Malcolm Forbes

[Lensman]

I don't know if he was INTJ but

"There is nothing to be learned from history anymore.
We're in science fiction now." --Allen Ginsberg

Has always been my favorite.

[Myrak]

I have a whole text file devoted to great quotes I stumble upon over the years. Most aren't necessarily famous quotes, but just stuff posted in forums that I thought was really insightful or humourous.

"We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for."
--from The Hacker's Manifesto. (could easily be applied outside hacking though)

"CAUTION: Using your brain is NOT endorsed by governments, religious, educational institutions, secret societies and corporations involved with serious power and financial profit obtained from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges your current view of the world. Use your brain, think for yourself and question authority. Reality is an opinion, you determine the reality in which you inhabit."
--unknown

"4 Steps to sidestepping an argument (by Paraflux)
1) ignore points made by other person 2) reiterate ignorant claims 3) attack others' intelligence for not "understanding" a human so complex 4) run away, while trying to make others believe you are laughing (even though the truth is you hurt deep inside)"
--Paraflux

"Get your god to do something useful - get him to mathematically explain dark matter, or quantum entanglement.
No doubt you will claim he can't because he is an arts graduate, and doesn't do math."
--iain

"No, it didn't fail. It jumped off a 100 storey building and landed face-first, leaving a bloody crater."
-- Corvus

"Next up, the State of California announces a "loss" of $12 billion in revenue from speeding fines. "All those people driving within the speed limit are costing this state billions" said The Governator."
-- Alex H.

and the penultimate quote from the late, great Bill Hicks;
"I'd love to see a positive LSD story, just once, you think that'd be newsworthy?

...Today, a young man on acid, realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves... here's Tom with the weather."

[rocksteady]

if you can't say what you mean, you can't mean what you say

don't know who said it, but i love it!

[Diana]

"Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased."


C.S. Lewis

[Br3nti5]

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete." - Sun Tzu

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays" - Confucius

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -Blaise Pascal

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke:

"Its Darkest before Dawn" - I-Ching

[Amaranth]

"Tell me my dreams are unrealistic, and I'll tell you yours aren't big enough."


I liked this one. Is it yours?


Some of my favorites:

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
GHANDI


"When you do something right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." -God, as portrayed by Futurama.


It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change - Charles Darwin


I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso


DO or DO NOT. There is no 'Try' Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)


The rule of no realm is mine, but all worthy things
that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care.
And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task
if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair
or bear fruit and flower again in days to come.
For I too am a steward. Did you not know?
-Gandalf, INTJ


You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change things, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – R. Buckminster Fuller


But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson


Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
-A Psalm of Life. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. –Henry David Thoreau

[Headstrong]

I liked this one. Is it yours?


Unfortunately, it is not.

[logos]

If you asked one of my co-workers to quote me, it might be...

"Good"

Since that's about all they hear from me :D (In response to "how are you doing")

My response to "how are you doing?" or other similar such questions where they don't really want to know the answer is, rather defiantly, "Hello." No one has ever called me on it, further proving they really don't want to know and are simply satisfied being greeted in kind.

[Doppelbock]

you laugh at me because i'm different. i laugh at you because you are all the same.


I LOVE this quote. Brilliant.

DB

Doppelbock added, 6 Minutes and 27 Seconds later...

Some of my favorite quotes that would seem to be related to INTJ's:

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
-- Mark Twain

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
-- Bertrand Russell

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-- Galileo Galilei

"In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is."
-- Yogi Berra

"If you can't say it in mathematics, it isn't science; it's opinion."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
-- Thomas Sowell

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."
-- Will Rogers

"Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It allows you to get stuck in more remote places."
-- Garrison Keillor

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not have it."
-- George Bernard Shaw

DB

[Laura_Palmer]

Never argue with an idiot.

[elfece]

"In a universe that goes against every description, every belief-based system can't be anything but false"

A.O.Spare

(Or at least that's what I know; I've found that quote in Spanish (and then I've just translated it back to its original language). I've been searching for the original one for a long time, but could never find it... Also, Spare had very bizarre magical beliefs, so I'm not sure if that's the kind of thinking a man like him would defend)

It may end up leading to nihilism, as I see it, but I think it makes a great answer against any 'blinded by faith' argument.


Also, this is my first post here, now I'm going to say 'hi' at the Introductions thread...

[BadMojo]

Never argue with an idiot.

Never argue with an idiot - They'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience. :thumbsup:

[janonymous]

Whether you can or cannot, either way you are right.

[Gonzo]

"Too weird to live, and too rare to die." :thumbsup:

[TheConcertinist]

Like a lot of you, I have a whole collection of quotes, but this one particularly haunts me. As I think about it (going on 10 years now), more and more of the mystery of life becomes clear to me, just through this simple statement.

"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."
-Thoreau

[1OFMANY]

"Do not let what you DONT know, destroy your faith in what you DO know."


"I'm sorry,you must be mistaking me for someone who gives a fucc!!"

[Antares]

*points to my personal text*

"I'll be nicer if you'll be smarter."
"The one who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument." - Chinese Proverb

"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. " - Laurence J. Peter
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. " - Charles W. Eliot
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson
"Justice delayed, is justice denied." - William Gladstone
"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything." - Frank Dane

Just some of my personal favorites :D





Camelopardalis added to this post, 5 minutes and 26 seconds later...

Like a lot of you, I have a whole collection of quotes, but this one particularly haunts me. As I think about it (going on 10 years now), more and more of the mystery of life becomes clear to me, just through this simple statement.

"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."
-Thoreau

That's quite depressing... But holds truth all the same.

[TheConcertinist]

That's quite depressing... But holds truth all the same.

Yeah, it can be very sad. However when I combine that with another of my favorite quotes, it's a little more hopeful, because it tells me that someone doesn't have to agree with me, or even understand me, to love me.

"Each one of us today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding."

[Anges]

"I'll admit it, I'm racist. I hate the human race. There are idiots everywhere." - Me

[slut poacher]

1.there is a sucker born every minute.-PT Barnum 2.you are a fantastic mechanic but a marginal human being.-my brother (another intj, the prick)

[Wapiti]

"You want it bad, you get it bad" - from a friend

[Blacklustre King]

People are like books, so easy to read. Faith in a false value or value in a false principle is no excuse for ignorance. The truth hurts and I' am just the man to slap you in the face with it.

What was that? My hubris is showing?

[Over]

INTJ - "I know a better way to do it"

Seen it in MBTI team session in witch i participated.

[ssfanatic]

"To follow blindly is rather not to follow at all."
-me
Thats my life philosophy, and though those who require no proof ofton think it foolish, i abide by it in every aspect of my life.

[Saurus]

"To follow blindly is rather not to follow at all."
-me
Thats my life philosophy, and though those who require no proof ofton think it foolish, i abide by it in every aspect of my life.

"A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow." General George S. Patton

[1OFMANY]

"If you can't say it in mathematics, it isn't science; it's opinion."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Thats great.

"Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It allows you to get stuck in more remote places."
-- Garrison Keillor


even better :laugh:

[Quite Robert]

"Tradition is valueless" -myself

[PortInStorm]

"What one man can do, another also can" - The Mountain? (movie)

"Now is the only time one can perform duty or receive grace" - Something like that. C.S. Lewis (ie. live in the moment)

"The only mile a man really has to walk is the next one"

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles 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 valiently, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

[FLBareBear]

"Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition from Mediocre Minds." Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite; The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm not sure about the Universe" Albert Einstein

Never try to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and annoys the Pig. Unknown

I'm new here, but couldn't resist adding my $.02.

[Capt57]

I would submit this dialog from the movie Malice with Alex Baldwin:

Hill: So I ask you, when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry, or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death, or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, you go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church and with any luck you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17th, and he doesn't like to be second guessed.

Hill: You ask me if I have a God complex?

Let me tell you something: I AM GOD.

[Bear Warp]

"Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions."

Ghanima Atreides from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune

[Lucid]

It's funny, I've used "say what you mean, mean what you say" as a personal motto for dealing with other humans. I thought I'd thought of it, but someone else posted it here as a quote.

Some favorites of mine:

"Do your own bit of saving and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore." -Kurt Vonnegut

"Use every man after his desert and who should escape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty." - Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"I'm sorry, are you still talking?" -Me

"Behold! My great and powerful logic is flawless and indisputable! Cower before my awesome reason, puny mortal!! Cower!!" -my ex boyfriend doing a mocking (yet somewhat truthful) impression of me.

I'm sure I'll think of more after I've posted this.

[Caramel]

"Truth is not a democracy."

"'Majority rule' don't work in mental institutions." (see One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)

[Capt57]

"Truth is not a democracy."

"'Majority rule' don't work in mental institutions." (see One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)

You must be a Henrik Ibsen fan? :laugh:

[MetalWounds]

The wise man lets the world know of his insight. The wisest man, however, lets the world think he is a fool. Not sure where that one came from, but it just stuck with me.

[Sylvanus]

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. -The Dalai Lama

Ok, listen Carefully. Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. -XKCD

[1OFMANY]

I would submit this dialog from the movie Malice with Alex Baldwin:

Hill: So I ask you, when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry, or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death, or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, you go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church and with any luck you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17th, and he doesn't like to be second guessed.

Hill: You ask me if I have a God complex?

Let me tell you something: I AM GOD.

Sounds like someones bitter that thier prayers weren't answered when they were a kid or their daddy hurt mommy too often so there CANT be a god lol

[amXDuser]

"pornography is a waste of time, sex isn't."
imo

[Richard0612]

Ones that I have thought of:

"Yes, that's great! Sorry, tell me why I care again?"

"You fail at being intelligent like a fish fails to breathe air!"

Others:
"It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" - not sure, I have seen it attributed to many people.

I'm sure I will think of more and add them later.

[elsdfr]

"To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying and gives moreover a feeling of power. Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown - the first instinct is to eliminate these distressing states. First principle: any explanation is better than none... The cause-creating drive is thus conditioned and excited by the feeling of fear ...." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sorry, what was the question?" - Me. Either I've zoned out or am concentrating or I've just rambled on about something and forgotten what the question was.

Reminds me of "Are you talking to me?" - Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver :thumbsup:

I used to say things like probably, don't know and perhaps a lot but that annoys most people so I had to stop.

[Rei]

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyèr


"Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."

"Insist on yourself; never imitate...Every great man is a unique."

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[LordHawk]

"We will either find a way or make one." Hannibal Barca

[Rei]

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life!"
- Marcus Aurelius

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal

"video et taceo" - Elizabeth I

[Sylvanus]

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal


Your quote made me think of this one:

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

[Rei]

Your quote made me think of this one:

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

Oh yes... that is a good one...
Just the thought makes me shiver a little

[youngblooded]

If you don't know, learn. If you already know, apply. If you know and have applied, improve

Me

[Alpha Prime]

"Better alone, than in bad company."

[ssfanatic]

I just want to know and understand my beliefs, if i dont then how can i defend them? And if i cant defend them, then do i really understand them? And if i dont understand them, do i really believe them at all? Therefore, TO FOLLOW BLINDLY IS RATHER NOT TO FOLLOW AT ALL.





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Your quote made me think of this one:

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing"
-Edmund Burke

[Ace1337]

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." - Confucious
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"You can do more with a kind word and a gun, than just a kind word." - Al Capone :D

[pavman]

When I was 20 I stated that "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally"...

But it seems that some politician in the US beat me to it... arse.

I made up the slang word "POG".... which I leveled at some of the girls I absolutely despised at school (I was about 13)... It’s formed from PIG and DOG. lol... it’s in the urban dictionary. But not used much.

LOL

I did that with STOOL (Supid + Fool = stool)...this way we could make fun of people without them knowing wtf we were talking about. It all made sense at the time...

[AgentofGaming]

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." - Confucious

I believe this one was from Lao Tzu, although they both come from the same era (Warring States China).

Confucius:
"What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others" (This is one seems to be in all culturesl)
"When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
"The cautious seldom err."
"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. "
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. "

Some I don't know the exact English translation but:
"Learning is lifelong"
"Respect your parents"

[Bear Warp]

"Imitation is suicide."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Ace1337]

I believe this one was from Lao Tzu, although they both come from the same era (Warring States China).
Yep, you're right.
It's one of my favourite quotes, I think all the world needs to prevent poverty and famine is education. An educated man can't bare hunger and injustice for too long. He'll think his way out.
Wherever you see poor and hungry people you see that there are no schools and that people don't even know how to write their names.

[TheFreeThinker]

"How much bullshit is that?" Me

[tearsbymidnyt]

"I built a bonfire this past weekend on the beach. A crazy crab ran straight into it. He tried to turn away and run back out. Alas it was too late for him. Most creatures run away from the flame they seek. It's human nature. The flirtation with danger and the light versus a safe life in the darkness.

It was only too late for the crab because some mean old sadist kicked it back into the fire. Go figure." - MTAM a/k/a Santa Claus


"Vision? What do you know of my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now tell me, do you really want to see that vision?" - Hugo (not Victor)

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.” - MTM


"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear..." - H. P. Lovecraft





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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -Heinlein (probably my favorite quote)



A Stranger in a Strange Land?


L.

[youngblooded]

Just some quotes from Death Note

Justice will, without fail, prevail - L

He who moves first always wins - L

If you cannot win the game, if you cannot solve the puzzle, you just another loser - Near

Investigations are based on assumptions. If you are wrong, a "sorry" would be enough - Near

[caveman]

enjoyed reading this topic. here is one of my favourite quoute:

I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it"

..i find it cool and somewhat INTJ related as we'r thought to be insane more than often.

[AgentofGaming]

Well not exactly insane, but others view me as though there is something wrong with me.

"Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."
Zhuge Liang, Master Strategist & Prime Minister of Shu, Three Kingdoms China

Some random ones:
"Those who cannot accept criticism, accept flaws"

"Those that participate in free transfer of knowledge do so in noble cause. For ignorance is the greatest blight upon humanity"

[LordHawk]

It is easier to beg forgiveness then ask permission.

[AgentofGaming]

"If you have no imagination, then nothing is possible"

"To see the whole picture you must see from the view of others"

[gillyweet]

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

[Pendaric]

"Think of the answers to the universe as a big puzzle. So far, science has only gathered a small portion of the puzzle. We have some completed corners, and some of the picture in the middle is starting to show. But, we haven't completed the puzzle. What religion does is it gets a crayon and colors in the places between the pieces. The crayon doesn't help complete the puzzle, but for the people who are confused about puzzles to begin with, it does fill the void and they are happy with that. As science continues to complete the puzzle, the crayon fills less and less of a void. Eventually, we hope, the puzzle will be completed. But it is a big-ass puzzle, so have patience and please stop coloring in the spaces with crayon."

Something I read on another forum.

[Alpha Prime]

Teach a man to light a fire, and you keep him warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.

[James Revell]

Teach a man to light a fire, and you keep him warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.

I've got the marshmellows....:thumbsup:

[lancelot]

Construct a valid argument or stop talking.

[Alpha Prime]

I've got the marshmellows....:thumbsup:

Bring me some chicken too, and I'll make sure James Blunt gets fired.

[burazekun]

"What I perceive is the truth till the day I perceive the truth as a lie." ~ Blaze

[Vivid]

"Shit happens." - From the movie 'Forrest Gump'.

"Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves." - From the film 'Harold & Maude'.

"He died." - The last words in some romance story by William Shakespeare, I think.

[Victor Tango]

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - H. P. Lovecraft

[Max T]

It is a good thing for an uneducated individual to read a book of quotations.
- Wnston Churchill.


Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgy


Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world and the chief glory of man.

- Bertrand Russell



I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
- Blaise Pascal.


This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I can live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it in to future generations.

- George Bernard Shaw

[Nyiah]

"Okay, here goes. Barbie's idea. It's like, that people.... Well, that everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world -- no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe."

— Neil Gaiman, Sandman: A Game of You

[Zilal]

St. Francis: "It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."

This is a constant reminder to me to do today, or right now, the things I hold as future goals. It used to be more literal... I wanted to grow up to write about environmentalism... but now it's more general.

[quentin]

Confucius: "You don't even know life; how can you know about death?"

The literal Chinese translation is much simpler: "No know life; no know death." It's the purest statement of agnosticism that I've found. Don't presume to be so arrogant to talk about things that you know nothing about. How can you possibly know about life beyond the grave? That has never been empirically tested, not by you or anyone else alive.

You haven't even figured out this life yet. Figure out how to live your life first and then perhaps you can begin to contemplate the greater cosmos.

[Kristian]

For the last couple of days "I'm better than you - and you know it." has been my personal message on MSN messenger. No comments yet. They all know it's true.

[karen]

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." -- Plato

[BadMojo]

"Life is wonderful, without it you will die" - anon

[In Strict Confidence]

“There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. Example affects their thoughts, just as it affects their action. They are like sheep following the bell-wether wherever he leads them. They would sooner die than think.”

Gotta love it. Gotta love old Schopenhauer.

Confucius: "You don't even know life; how can you know about death?"

...the purest statement of agnosticism that I've found. Don't presume to be so arrogant to talk about things that you know nothing about.

This caught my attention, I really like it. *scribbles down*

[lordrrr]

"Do you fear the dark?"

[Santana28]

"For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards."
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

[ElstonGunn]

“‘My brother ought not to have treated me thus.' True: but he must see to that. However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder.” -Epictetus

[Mike251]

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names"

--John F. Kennedy.

[guardian789]

I have a few.

"It's not who you are but what you do that defines you"---Christopher Nolan.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."---
Edmund Burke.

"All get what they want they do not always like it."---C.S. Lewis.

"Do you know what they (people) are mostly, bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling."---Dr. Cox. I still laugh at this one.

"And there was some good, I assure you. In every age there is some good. God is ever present, ever eager to be found if men will look. I know, I’ve searched."
Stephen R. Lawhead.

[Toby]

"Denn es sei schöner, dass, wenn man etwas tut, die richtige Entscheidung nicht zum Erfolg führt, als dass die falsche Entscheidung durch Zufall zum Erfolg führt." -- Epicurus

I tried to translate it. I hope this makes sense...

Because it is better to make the right decision even if it does not end in success, than to make the wrong decision which against all odds still ends in success.

[SeaCzar]

"Honi soit qui mal y pense". (Old French) Edward III King of England circa 1340.

"Shamed be the person who thinks evil of it".

[pallasathena]

I found this one on the Internet one day and it's become a sort of mantra to me:

There is no growth in the comfort zone and no comfort in the growth zone

[raconteur213]

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

[escapist11]

I don't remember where I got this from, but it's hella true.

"Most people talk, but how many actually say something?"

[TheLastMohican]

I cannot choose one favorite quote, but here is one of my favorites:

Major General John Sedgewick, replying to an officer who advised him to get off his horse to avoid being hit by Confederate sharpshooters:

"Nonsense, they couldn't hit an elephant from this dis-"

His death was immediate.

[SeaCzar]

I cannot choose one favorite quote, but here is one of my favorites:

Major General John Sedgewick, replying to an officer who advised him to get off his horse to avoid being hit by Confederate sharpshooters:

"Nonsense, they couldn't hit an elephant from this dis-"

His death was immediate.

You should start a new thread-Famous Last Words.

[TheLastMohican]

Much obliged.

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[juchestyle]

Creativity is more important than knowledge - Einstein

Beware the fury of a patient man (or an INTJ)

Bad things happen when good people do nothing.

A warrior does what he can until destiny reveals itself

Do or do not there is no try - Yoda

[notoppings]

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates

[Szarra]

Sometimes it's not worth chewing through the leather straps in the morning.

[ElstonGunn]

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates

That guy apparently hated marriage...

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent." -Socrates
"Call no man unhappy until he is married." -Socrates

Or he might have just been a smartass about it. I don't know.

[pallasathena]

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend

Bruce Lee

[kantsuu]

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov

"All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down." - Randall McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

[cal]

One must create their own system, or be enslaved by another's. - unknown

A paraphrased quote, author unknown: Think outside the box? There is no box. There is only searching for the truth.

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Probably my favorite one there is: As long as we have each other, we'll never run out of problems.

[songofcalamity]

"You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen, he took his inheritance—seven hundred kronen—and moved to Vienna to live and study. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts and later to the School of Architecture. Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I’ll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas."

[sriv]

"Therefore the good fighter must be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[ethsar46]

"Feeling stupid? I know I am" Homer Simpson

My fav simpson quote ever.

[apotheon]

Thomas Jefferson--The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

[suzyk]

'Stupid is as stupid does.'

Dunno who said that, but I like it.

[DrEast]

"I hate the people who love me, and they hate me!" - Bender Bending Rodriguez

"Somewhere at the edge of the bell curve is the girl for me." - xkcd (Randall Munroe)

"Someone is WRONG on the internet!" - xkcd again

[TeleportThis]

The more you know, you know you don't know shit.
--Ben Folds

Progress doesn't come of early risers; progress comes from lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
--From Robert Heinlein's Time Enough For Love

[ethsar46]

'Stupid is as stupid does.'

Dunno who said that, but I like it.

I think thats from Forest Gump actually.

[Metamorphosis]

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - "Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne Paries, April 23, 1910

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill. - W. Clement Stone

You are undoubtedly familiar with men who are quiet and strong and seem to be doing nothing. They do not appear to be tense and do not appear to be in disarray. They simply appear. This is exactly the appearance for which they strive. When it is necessary to attack, they do so with complete resolve, sure of themselves, neither overbearing in attitude nor with false humility. They attack with one purpose and one purpose only, to destroy the enemy. - Miyamoto Musashi

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. " - Bertrand Russell

[Uberfuhrer]

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." --Walt Disney

"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." --Aldous Huxley

"If he's so smart, how come he's dead?" --Homer Simpson

[Timdotz]

William Shakespeare
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

[PortInStorm]

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - "Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne Paries, April 23, 1910

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill. - W. Clement Stone


That first one is the one I lived by for years of undergrad going trying to get to grad school, I had it typed up and displayed beside my computer, and it really helped when I'd get the occasional bad mark. I'd remind myself that I'd rather be in schhol, try my best, hit my Waterloo and get a bad mark, then stay out of school for fear of failure. It's only when you hit the wall that you know where your limits are and thus live to the fullest potential.

And the second one is friggin' fantastic!

[suzyk]

I think thats from Forest Gump actually.

I don't think so. Hasn't it been said before 1994?

[BlackHawk]

Sometimes we build walls around ourselves, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. - Unknown

Never argue with an idiot - They'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience. -Unknown

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain

[True Rune]

"Department of redundancy department"
'There is no such thing as common sense. It's actually called good sense, and it's NOT common!" - My grandma said it..

[PortInStorm]

Or 'don't cast your pearls before swine'. Give them a chance, and if they still reject it, go elsewhere.

[spittingvenom]

"What do I really know?" -Descartes

I'm thinking of getting it tatooed on my wrist.

[cal]

I don't know who said it. Probably no one famous. But anyone whose gone to 'find themselves' might appreciate it:

I'm going out to find myself. If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait.

[mental drift]

"I could conquer the world if only I had enough ribbon."-Napoleon Bonaparte

"It's the weak mind that cannot accept change." Martin Luther King Jr.

[ISDF]

Give A Man A Fish He Eats For A Day Teach a Man To Fish He Buys An Ugly Hat
-Dogbert

Fate Does Not Exist It's Called Coincidence, Deal With It
-Me

[sriv]

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
- Bertrand Russell

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
- P.D. Ouspensky

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
- Ayn Rand

On emotion. I am not sure if Ouspensky is an INTJ, but an INTJ would sure as hell say that.

[instead]

“My idea of a fair fight is beating baby seals with a club.” - someone's signature on the defensivecarry.com forum o_0

It immediately made me think... INTJ.

[Reanne]

"Crisis has two faces, either it brings one to depreciation or molds one to somebody wiser."

funny i get to think of this one in the middle of crisis. :p

[errrzarrr]

i'm a "the godfather" freak

He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon.
- vito corleone

My father's name was Antonio Andolini... and this is for you *stabs*
- vito corleone

keep your friends close but your enemies closer
- vito corleone

i'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse
- vito corleone (... lol... i said this once already to someone)

"But I'm a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him - If he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell - or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning, them I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But, that aside, let me say that I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we've made here today."
- vito corleone

"I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life--I don't apologize--to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don't apologize--that's my life--but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. [Michael: Another pezzonovante] Well, this wasn't enough time, Michael. It wasn't enough time. [Michael: We'll get there, pop. We'll get there.]"
- vito corleone

"So the next day, my father went to see him; only this time with Luca Brasi. An' within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1000. [Kay: "How'd he do that?"] My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. [Kay: "What was that?"] Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract. That's a true story. That's my family, Kay, it's not me."
- michael corleone

"Today I settled all Family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo."
- michael corleone

---

all things are nothing to me... i am not not nothing in the sense of emptiness. but i am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which i myself as creator create everything
- max stirner (the philosopher nietzsche often reads and according to some scholars, the mind he plagiarized like with zarathustra)

ohhh I love El Padrino, all the 3 movies. Vito and Michael Corleone rocks!!!:cool:

[xwalka]

I was drinking a Mimosa and playing Kings when someone said it was a girl drink. My response:

"I won't let society tell me what to drink; most people are stupid."

[airshiplogic]

Practically anything by Gregory House from HouseMD. :D That guy is brilliant!

[Doppelbock]

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - H. P. Lovecraft

Ah, that is one of my favorites!

[ShaiGar]

Practically anything by Gregory House from HouseMD. :D That guy is brilliant!
Except for him being an ENTP, yeah.

[Wapiti]

Just because they make it in your size doesn't mean you should wear it.

[ElGuyay]

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
-Epicurus


shame is not virtue
guilt is not goodness
fear is not honor
lust is not passion
abandon is not freedom
aggressiveness is not eagerness



The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.


"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them 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; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt



War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.


Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
--Thucydides--


People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--

[Marcus Brutus]

"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves" (Shakespeare)

[Erika Redmark]

I love Cassius. ^_^

I'm also sort of a fan of Calvin Coolidge for the following reasons:

"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."

"No man ever listened himself out of a job."

[Diamond8INTJ]

" INTJ's DO IT BETTER "

" EXPERIENCE IS OVERRATED "

" THIS IS WHO I AM, YOU CAN LIKE IT OR NOT "

[SongofSeptember]

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

[ssrprotege]

William Shakespeare
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

From Hamlet, that's an awesome one.

Mine goes:

"Math is more than formulas and equations. It's logic; it's rationality; it's using our mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know." - Charles Eppes (played by David Krumholtz)

The NUMB3RS Theme Song perfectly summarizes why math is necessary in this world.

[PHS Philip]

Wow, I have so many I love. I have pages and pages saved. Actually, a lot I found in quote threads on this forum.

Just one...let's see. I give up. I'll put a few down.

“We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
-
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for."-The Hacker's Manifesto

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes." –Terry Pratchett

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world and the chief glory of man.
- Bertrand Russell

"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. "-Carl Sagan

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? -Carl Sagan

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not have it."- George Bernard Shaw

“Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the 20th century the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms…movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man’s genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery!” –Leon Trotsky

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. -Frank Zappa

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute. -Frank Zappa



I have lots more, but I'll stop there.

[Mozzes]

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."

I'm a big Woody Allen fan. Any time I'm feeling inadequate and completely socially inept I just put one of his movies in and I instantly feel better about myself. :laugh:

[olsonlj1]

"The concept of the Creator is fraught with difficulty. Who created the creator? If the Creator 'just is' then maybe the universe 'just is'. Why multiply entities unnecessarily?"
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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing." -Isaac Asimov

"I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong." -Isaac Asimov

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." -Isaac Asimov

"The person who has not learned to be happy and content while being completely alone for an hour, a day, or a week, has missed life's greatest serenity." -H. Clay Tate

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless." -John Ruskin

"When they give you ruled paper, write the other way." -Juan Ramón Jiménez

"Every burned book enlightens the world." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill

[trousers]

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice" - MLK

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs" - Martin Luther

[Fej]

"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?" - Tuco

[SerialPsychosis]

Oh ... I have far too many favorite quotes.... I'll attempt to keep this brief (but obviously, I failed at this miserably....so enjoy the long read I guess?).

I've collected these from many sources:


"Men only think of the past before they die to see if there was proof that they were ever alive." -Cowboy Bebop

"The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also." -George Orwell

"Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has a toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having a toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness." -George Orwell

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men" -(Again) George Orwell

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." -T.E. Lawrence

"People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance" -Calvin and Hobbes

"The problem with people is that they don't look at the big picture. Eventually, we're each going to die, our species will go extinct, the sun will explode, and the universe will collapse. Existence isn't only temporary, it's pointless! We're all doomed, and worse, nothing matters!" -Calvin and Hobbes

"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices." -Calvin and Hobbes

"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose." -Catcher in the Rye

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them— if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." -Catcher in the Rye

"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone." -Catcher in the Rye

"He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one" -1984

"When war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded." -1984

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.” -Niel Gaiman

---it should be noted that the remaining quotes here are all Hunter S. Thompson---

"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely."

"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get..."

"A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads... and they are going to stay that way... Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life."


"Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent."

"Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

[sriv]

"Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"


Depends.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.
- James Oppenheim

[Latte]

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being - Buckminster Fuller

[shebazknight]

;) `Sharing is Caring`.





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`To Live is to Laugh, To Laugh is to Live`.

[echoi]

"In books lies the soul of the whole past time" - Thomas Carlyle

[zoophilia]

The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, TAKE IT PERSONALLY. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it PERSONAL. Do as much damage as you can. GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous makes the difference, the ONLY difference in their eyes, between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

Things I Should Have Learnt by Now, Volume II

[Beery Swine]

You opened up my hornet's nest with this thread because I love quotes. Way, way too many favorites, but I'll try and at least narrow them down to a few.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
John Adams

I could fill a thread with John Adams alone.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them. This may seem an extraordinary claim, but it merely enunciates an ordinary fact about the world in which we live. Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary violence against others. There is, in fact, no talking to some people. If they cannot be captured, and they often cannot, otherwise tolerant people may be justified in killing them in self-defense.
Sam Harris

1. Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a WALL OF SEPARATION between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
2. What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance; let them take arms.
Thomas Jefferson

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.
James Madison

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Thomas Paine

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded.'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said. grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say,'No, no. no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.' A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science mught be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
Carl Sagan

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

I apologize for the excessive length, but damn, I love me some words of wisdom.

[Ivyman]

"Stand before your God
Bow before your King
Kneel before your wife/husband

Recipie for a happy life that"

Nanny Ogg (Witch)

[Fej]

"I don't need to 'get a life'. I'm a gamer, I have LOTS of LIVES!" - Random gamer

[Metaphor]

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - From the creator of Calvin and Hobbies (I forget his name).

[ElstonGunn]

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - From the creator of Calvin and Hobbies (I forget his name).

Bill Watterson. Speaking of him:

"They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re in a tragedy or a farce. …We need more special effects and dance numbers."

"A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect! Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground-down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. …Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic."

"I wonder how long it’s been since I last looked at the clock. Maybe it’s been an hour. Well, actually it’s probably been only 40 minutes. I’ll guess half an hour to be safe. …20 seconds?!? It’s going to be a very bad day."

" 'I want the last piece of pie! Don’t divide it up! Give it to me!' 'Don’t be selfish, Calvin.' 'So the real message here is Be dishonest?' "

"In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the very long term, I know which will make better memories."

"The problem with new experiences is that they’re rarely the ones you choose."

"I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"

"A good compromise leaves everybody mad."

"I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I’m learning skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life… Procrastinating and rationalizing."

[Fej]

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life

[Shakyamuni]

Iron, when heated and pounded, becomes a fine sword. Likewise, Buddhism teaches that our true strength and potential cannot be forged without hardships. - Daisaku Ikeda

[LionsPride]

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

It's my favourite because it's so very true and something I need to work on. All of those things are expressions I have difficulty with, but mean so much to those around me.

[bluesquid]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

[Mafiaangel180]

I like these Rainer Maria Rilke quotes:


“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”


“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”


“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”


“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”


“...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave."


"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”


“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it”

[Alstroemeria]

Excuse me for collecting quotes. Especially those of an INTJ-esque nature.

"When you see a good move, look for a better one."

[Siegel]

In German, "Geld ist Gift" which means "Money is poison". -Me

You have a small amount of money and you want more to fix your problems, but it only acts as a poison. When you add it to the small amount you have, it's more painful.

And you're not going to look well when you're dead.

[Kisai]

"You're talking to me as if I give a shit." - Me


Heh. "I am so full of not caring right now." - Me.

[ssrprotege]

Being mean is a good thing[, as long as it makes you THINK]. - Myself

I was the founder of the math contest preparation group, and I used this a lot while I was teaching the students.

[kriss]

"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"I don't do diplomacy."

"As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want"

[Haphazard]

"I have seen the future, and it doesn't work." - Robert Fulford

You can't get much more INTJ than that.

[bricklayer]

"Sometimes we build walls around ourselves, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." - Unknown

Describes my inner self perfectly.

Hey somebody cracked my name.

I don't know if these are INTJ quotes but I like them:

"I would rather have a thousand failures than one mediocre success."

"Wouldn't you be more afraid if you never died?"

"I would rather make my own mistakes than copy someone elses."

[comet]

Some of my favourite quotes;

'Children are born without religion, don't give them your neurosis.' --Nick Kinnan

'Primates often have trouble imagining a universe not run by an angry alpha male.' --Unknown

'Atheism is the voice of a few intelligent people' --Voltaire

'The existence of G W Bush is the proof against intelligent design.' --Charles Stonehouse V

'It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.' --Carl Sagan

'Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.' --Don Hirschberg

'A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.' --Frank Zappa

[konec]

-I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back-

Tolstoy

[Grizzly]

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo an after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.
-Nietzsche

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has many masters as there are many people who may be useful in bettering his position.
- Jean De La Bruyere

[herbicidal]

"Truth is not a democracy."

"'Majority rule' don't work in mental institutions." (see One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
Democracy is two wolves and sheep deciding what's for dinner.

[Thrifty]

Except for him being an ENTP, yeah.

I highly doubt House is an Extrovert :P


These are good INTJ quotes I think:

"Instead of your theory encompassing reality, it's your perception of reality that is as narrow as your theory. That's why both coincide."

"These kind of things should be done away with, as it restrains us and our capabilities. Also, things that we have not seen yet and we do not know yet... it is foolish to fear them". -Uchiha Itachi (Anime character)

"I don't insult; I diagnose".

"If you take shortcuts, you get cut short."

"I'm intolerant of intolerance and fanatical against fanatism"

"I bow only to truth, and truth bows to no one."

"The best slave is the slave who thinks he is free, and the greatest fool is the fool who thinks he is a wise man. "

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Noam Chomsky

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." -Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everyone sees how you appear, few touch what you are".
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." —Arthur Schopenhauer

"My way of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?" -Marque De Sade


To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else--is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight. -E.E. Cummings

[mind_wander]

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."-FDR

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”-Albert Einstein quotes

[PHS Philip]

I got a lot of the quotes I saved from here, so although I'll try to avoid posting ones that are already posted, I may accidentally post a few.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -Winston Churchill

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” –Frederick Douglass

"Only two things are infinite; The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm not sure about the Universe" Albert Einstein

“You're not entitled to your own opinion. You're only entitled to your own informed opinion.” -Harlan Ellison

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” –Stephen Hawking (More INTPish I guess, but I still love the quote)

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. –Robert Heinlein

There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.- Oscar Levant

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men" -George Orwell

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not have it."- George Bernard Shaw

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."- Mark Twain

"Never attribute to malice that which may be adequately explained by stupidity"-Hanlon's Razor

"90% of everything is crap"-Sturgeon's law

[xtremegeek]

"Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men."
—Albert Einstein


"Any intelligent 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

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true."
--Homer Simpson

[Airius]

"Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it."

"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."

"Your heart is my piñata."

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

"Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism."

"I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined."

"More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself."


Chuck Palahniuk quotes.

[JonD]

A little Chuck Palahniuk for starters...


It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

I want to have your abortion.

The only difference between martyrdom and suicide really is press coverage.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized yet.


And some Greg House quotes...


Dr. Gregory House: Ah, a rash, call a dermatologist. If it's wet, keep it dry. If it's dry, keep it wet. If it's not supposed to be there, cut it off. I never could remember all that.

House: Did the MRI show anything?
Dr. Foreman: CT scan was negative.
House: CT? That's like short for MRI, right?

House: You told me you hadn't changed your diet or exercise. Were you lying?
Samantha: Lying?
House: Does your husband have high blood pressure?
Samantha: My husband?
House: Yeah, see, if you're going to repeat everything I say, this conversation's going to take twice as long.

Dr. Wilson: You really don't need to know everything about everybody.
House: I don't need to watch The O.C., but it makes me happy.

"You could think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to stop thinking"

"Dying people lie too. Wish they'd worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite."

"If you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic."

And of course,

Dr. Gregory House: Everybody lies.

[intj5784]

the empires of the future are empires of the mind-churchill

[Mozzes]

Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

[searcher]

I win.

[ScurvyRose]

When some one is droning on about a story they want an opinion on..

Just give me the cliff's notes version, I got the rest.

[searcher]

Sheep! you're all sheep! - me in disgust at people who just do what everyone else is doing.

[Tragic Hero]

Two quotes, probably not by INTJ'S, nonetheless...

"No-one ever went broke underestimating people's intelligence."

"If there is a God, I don't think he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that he's an underachiever."

[enWTFp]

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." - Robert Benchley
(a wink to all of us non-native speakers)
"You know less than you think you know, but more than you know you know." - meThe best N quote I've seen. Sensors will never get that.
My favourite INTJ quotes are by Winston Churchill, glad to see some posted already.

"I am easily satisfied with the very best."
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

[Dave C C]

You're an idiot - me

[NephilimAzrael]

"No one is perfect.. like us"- my Dad
"If they say you are wrong for thinking something, you are onto something" - my Uncle
"If it's common sense, then I'm freak intuition" - me
"I try to see things from your point of view, but I can't fit my head up your asshole too" - GLC

[meidepractical]

-Well with that idea you might as well be trying to get first place on the interstate.

-One my dad always tells me: Believe nothing of what you hear and half of what you see.

[Doppelbock]

"Why lie when there are so many different ways of telling the truth?" -- former INTJ co-worker of mine

[LordMaiestas]

"This world is full of lies " - me

[chegra]

"If you keep this secret, this strawberry is yours."- L

[Jesseh]

I know it sounds stupid, but here's one I've used for years.

"Stripes will always be on a tigers back, whether you shave its fur or paint it black."

I wish I followed my own advice more often.

[ScurvyRose]

I put this in the one liners thread, but here it is again! It is a personal favorite!

You have fatalistic motivational tendencies!

[Jesseh]

I put this in the one liners thread, but here it is again! It is a personal favorite!

You have fatalistic motivational tendencies!

lol! I recognize it =p

[Mozzes]

I know it sounds stupid, but here's one I've used for years.

"Stripes will always be on a tigers back, whether you shave its fur or paint it black."

I wish I followed my own advice more often.

I wonder if that was derived from the expression "A leopard can't change his spots." (or vice versa) .

[cncracer]

“When you leave, always leave it better than you found it.”

Ruth Kelly Lore 1895 -1966

[Liquid]

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"If you put that straitjacket on me, I'm going to pull your endocrine system out of of your body. And make a hat out of it."
-Gary Busey

[rewhu]

Some of the posts in here are really great. I'm not going to quote any of them because that would take too long. Suffice to say that this thread has made me laugh and nod my head at least once on each page.

I have several quotes taken from others and created by myself that motivate or entertain me, but in keeping with the original post I’ll offer the following:

“I have no time for office politics.” Me

“In my mind that person has ceased to exist.” Me

“You can do whatever you want as long as you don’t
negatively affect my quality of life.” Me

“Back to math!” Monte314

[Trym]

"The Lord is my shepperd, which makes me a sheep"

[Undead Bonzi]

Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.

[lambpox]

Friend: how would you describe a donkey's ear?
Another friend: ......
Me: an EAR.

My other friend found this really funny for some reason

[DrEast]

"They called me mad, and I called them mad. They outnumbered me."

-Nathaniel Lee (inmate of an insane asylum)

"The only people I find more insufferable than those who claim to know the mind of God are those who claim he doesn't have one." - I forget who said this, but I love it.

[metamagnet]

"Wisdom is learning from other peoples' mistakes." - Me
"I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation" - Me

[ScurvyRose]

I do not know what move this is from but:

- "Overtaxed, overworked and paid off with a knife, a club or a rope."
- "Why, you speak treason."
- "Fluently."

[Thrifty]

"...that's the best thing about being an INTJ; that eventually we are able to solve our own problems..." --Somebody on this forum.

[theJarrett]

"Don't beleive everything you think" - my Dad
also,

"If I'm not in the car thirty seconds after I announce my intent to depart, I set fire to the building. I figure that's one way to get people to shut up and let me leave."
-- one of this forum's members... I just don't remember which one.





theJarrett added to this post, 11 minutes and 18 seconds later...

oh another one:

"Wir müssen wissen - wir wollen wissen" - David Hilbert
(We must know - we will know.)

[SeaCzar]

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think." Me.

[Reanne]

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

[justagirl]

"
"I try to see things from your point of view, but I can't fit my head up your asshole too" - GLC

LOL, there is a person I would LOVE to use that on. I'll have to keep it for the day I quit :)

[HeyZeus]

"Not only are you being redundant, but you keep saying the same thing over and over."

[Kisai]

"Scientia est potestas est voluptas." -Me (Knowledge is Power is Pleasure.)

[Valentyne]

Steven Erikson: The Malazan Book of the Fallen

"Tradition and habit are not sound arguments."

‘The faith you suggest seems more a willful denial.’

Tehol: "Even genius has its flaws."
Brys: "Even with you, Tehol?"
Tehol: "Well, I was generalizing to put you at ease. I never include myself in my own generalizations. I am ever the exception of the rule."

‘I dislike being distressed. It irritates me. Immeasurably.’

‘Every worthwhile plan is diabolical.’

‘Were I not so self-centred, I’d be intrigued.’

‘The deliverance of discord into otherwise predictable, truncated and sordid lives seemed a worthwhile thing. Well, perhaps not worthwhile, but certainly interesting.’

‘You’re not just an idiot. You’re also a fool. And deluded, and immature, and obsessive, and petty, spiteful, patronizing, condescending, defensive, aggressive, ignorant, willful, inconsistent, contradictory, and you’re ugly as well.’

'"Why would I lie?'
'"Why wouldn't you?'"

"I hate it when everyone knows more than me."

"I find no comfort in being stupid. Unlike, I think, most people."

"All right, fine, make me feel guilty, then. See if I care."

"It's just that I don't trust nice people."

Bauchelain: “I must perforce make the linkage plain, of sufficient simplicity to permit your uneducated mind to grasp all manner of significance. Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment quickly follows, yielding dire punishment, inflicting general terror and paranoia, eventually culminating in revolt, leading to chaos, then dissolution, and thus, the end of civilization.”

...I am sorry, I've seemed to have gotten carried away.

[Taranis]

" Life is like a giant chess table,every move has its own
consequences "

I keep saying that when people act thoughtless

[Ranie9]

Who knows, who cares, why bother?
ex-boyfriend

Nothing matters, and what if it did?
ex-boyfriend; not sure if he was quoting someone

Pet peeve:
House: You told me you hadn't changed your diet or exercise. Were you lying?
Samantha: Lying?
House: Does your husband have high blood pressure?
Samantha: My husband?
House: Yeah, see, if you're going to repeat everything I say, this conversation's going to take twice as long.

Why do people do that? It drives me crazy. I especially hate it when I do it.

[Futuremouse]

my favorite:

'All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others' - Douglas Adams.

my oft used:

'skip to the end' - to everyone, pretty much all the time.

'is there any way you could just put the pictures in order and shut up?' - for the film editors i tend to support technically, but not emotionally.

'then, all of a sudden, i was the asshole in the place' - typically said with an incredulous look and a half-sneer when recounting instances where totally innocent me was considered an asshole by someone who just wasn't paying closed enough attention to the subtly of my behavior or argument, or both.

[ElstonGunn]

"If I'm not in the car thirty seconds after I announce my intent to depart, I set fire to the building. I figure that's one way to get people to shut up and let me leave."
-- one of this forum's members... I just don't remember which one.

Man, what kind of bozo would say something like that? Definitely not me. Never. ;)