The History of Thought

"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in." ~Alan Alda

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Food for thought...

These are just some interesting little quotes for you to ingest within your minds! I know that you will thoroughly enjoy them all! Thanks, guys! Keep posting!

  • "The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay." -Rev. Troy Perry
  • "If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." -Johann van Goethe
  • "There is just one life for each of us: our own." -Euripides
  • "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." -Matthew 7:1-2
  • "Thou art to me a delicious torment." -Emerson
  • You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis
  • If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ~The Talmud
  • If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. ~Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
  • The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
  • What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878
  • 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 A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., March 22, 1956
  • The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ~Henrik Ibsen
  • From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
  • Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508
  • How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~Niels Bohr

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