Quotation Meme
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debetesseGo here and look through random quotations until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.
I like serenada's version, which also includes 5 that "vibrated at just the wrong frequency".
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
Let's not get into how much I dislike this guy, but, no. As the song goes, "Your life is now."
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
How much do I despise self-centered-ness? Thiiiiis much. It's really the back half of this quotation that totally loses me.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
While the young certainly don't know everything, they/we often have a clearer sense of absolute good and evil than the more real politic ethic of the more mature, which is an important perspective to have, even if it's not terribly useful as the only one.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Obviously a man who never met a bureaucracy.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
Sitting in my classroom, this is utter bullshit.
And the true ones:
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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.
E. F. Schumacher
(At least as much because it came up twice and I agreed more the second time)
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
I like serenada's version, which also includes 5 that "vibrated at just the wrong frequency".
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
Let's not get into how much I dislike this guy, but, no. As the song goes, "Your life is now."
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
How much do I despise self-centered-ness? Thiiiiis much. It's really the back half of this quotation that totally loses me.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
While the young certainly don't know everything, they/we often have a clearer sense of absolute good and evil than the more real politic ethic of the more mature, which is an important perspective to have, even if it's not terribly useful as the only one.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Obviously a man who never met a bureaucracy.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
Sitting in my classroom, this is utter bullshit.
And the true ones:
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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.
E. F. Schumacher
(At least as much because it came up twice and I agreed more the second time)
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
