~The Unofficial Wisdom Quotes Wanted Thread – Roast a Bowl and Post a Quote~

[Kush Lord]

Bunch of great quotes, they all make sense and make you feel better. But only for about 2 minutes...then you forget.

[AK Infinity]

"There is a utilitarian case for free expression. It recognizes that the freedom to speak must also be insisted on for the person who thinks differently, because it is pointless to support only free speech for people who agree with you. It is not only unprincipled to want that, but also self-defeating. For your own sake, you need to know how other people think."

~Chrisopher Hitchens~

"There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear; and there is damnation in the things that wicked men love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease, and bring new elements of health. And where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast."

~Henry Ward Beecher~

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people."

~John F. Kennedy~

[bkadoctaj]

"The principles of things are most enjoyable."
- Cheng Hao (Neo-Confucian philosopher)

"The principle of principles are most enjoyable."
- bkadoctaj (personal philosopher)

"What fills the whole body is the feeling of commiseration."
- Cheng Hao

[AK Infinity]

"It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light."

~Wilkie Collins - "Man and Wife"~

[bkadoctaj]

"Like the more you say, the less you say it."

[Digit]

"yes"

[Digit]

"When people near-by are not befriended, there is no use endeavoring to attract those at a distance." -Mozi

[Phaedrus]

"When we are with others we must look after are tongue, and when we are alone, after our mind". - Dalai Lama

Trivial speech, talkativeness, idle chatter are useless. Such talk is generally centered around desire, attachment or aversion, and only increases our illusions. -Dalai Lama

[Cali Ounces]

“Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.”
Doug Stanhope

[bkadoctaj]

"The destruction of the poor man is his poverty."
- Bunny Wailer

[AK Infinity]

"It is not the critic that 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 short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt~

[mikelosxx]

Originally Posted by Digit

We are one

^beautiful.

[the roach]

If youth knew; if age could.
-Sigmund Freud

[Happyjack13]

I found this quote written on a bathroom stall in Ann Arbor...


"Live with no expectations, a positive mind, and make sure that your own happiness is not defined by others = inner strength and unconditional contentment."

I feel it's a great philosophy to live by.

[AK Infinity]

"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky."

~Carl Sagan~