Monday 2 May 2016

Thoughtful Quotes

Advice, truths and memorable quotes from the wise men and women of history.
There are a total of 3050 quotes in this category.

 Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.Malcolm Muggeridge 

 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
William Gibson 
 Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
 Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy 
 The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind
Freud 
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Solomon Short 
 After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.
Spock, "Amok Time"stardate 3372.7 
Conquest is easy. Control is not.
Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror"stardate unknown 
 History tends to exaggerate.
Col. Green"The Savage Curtain"stardate 5906.4 

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