Your Favourite Quotes

[Defcon 5]

Lets post some of our favourite quotes .

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

[Darksat]

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein.

These are my favourite einstein quotes.
I have some of my own personal quotes though, I will post some of them later.

[Darksat]

Here is one I just came up with.
See if you can get it.

If shrodingers cat were looking at a tree fall in the forest, would the tree make a sound, and would the cat be alive.

[JulianM]

I dunno, DS... the tree would make a silent sound and the cat would be a zombie?

[Darksat]

Its a Quantum Koan.
The logic behind it is deep.

Here is another quote I like.

"There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.

A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created."

Its by a due called "Wallace D. Wattles"

Despite the gay name he was fairly smart.

Here are a few more of his.

"You don't have to get something for nothing, but can give to every person more than you take from him."

"By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it."

"When you make a failure it is because you have not asked for enough. Keep on, and a larger thing than you were seeking will certainly come to you."

"There is never any hurry on the creative plane, and there is no lack of opportunity."

"The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best."

"The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining."

"Give a little child a pencil and paper, and they begin to draw crude figures; That which lives in them is trying to express Itself in art. Give them a set of blocks, and he will try to build something; That which lives in them is seeking expression in architecture. Seat them at a piano, and they will try to draw harmony from the keys; That which lives in them is trying to express Itself in music. That which lives in man is always seeking to live more [...]."

[Defcon 5]

just found these lol!
'My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch'
--Jack Nicholson

'See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.'
--Robin Williams

[Darksat]

"People only get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory." Paul Fix
"Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year."
"A successful person is one who can build a solid foundation out of the bricks life throws at them."
"According to recognised aerotechnical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. But the bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway."
"Even when you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
"Fall down seven times, get up eight"
"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars."
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Closing Time by Semisonic
"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing." Socrates
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Sufi quote
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." Lily Tomlin
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy
"Experience is the toughest teacher because she gives the test first, and then the lesson."
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." Somerset Maugham
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I never take counsel of my fears." General George Patton
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." Joan Baez
"I always knew that one day I would take this road but yesterday I did not know today would be the day." Nagarjuna
"Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears." Richard Wilkins
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." Margaret Young
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still" Lao-Tzu
"Enlightenment is your ego's biggest disappointment."

[Darksat]

Ok now for some of mine.
The easiest path to enlightenment is not to destroy your ego, but to expand it to encompass everything.
Trust your emotions, but remember, fear is not an emotion, its a lack of courage.
Music and Light are both identical, they are vibration and energy, just like everything else.

[Defcon 5]

The easiest path to enlightenment is not to destroy your ego, but to expand it to encompass everything.

come again?
I don't understand it

[Darksat]

Ok think of remembering your higher self instead of renouncing your lower self.

[girdhar]

My favorite quote is
  "Try to get what you like , if you cant get it then try to like what got,that is the only key to be happy."

[Darksat]

Not Bad.
I like this

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

[girdhar]

Not Bad.
I like this

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Hi,
I read this poem when I was in the 7 standered  and I  love this poem .With The best reflection of the life and all the remedy's over sorrow and failure.

[Darksat]

Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes
(er I mean poems/books)

The money was just resting in my Account
(Fr Ted Crilly)

[Joygasm]

""Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most" --ozzy osbourne" --serial killer