[DanTheMiataMan]

Stephen W. Hawking: 'The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.'

 

[freakydrew]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jude /img/forum/go_quote.gif A reminder: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/no...llowed-244685/

bit of an oxymoron on a thread about quotes...lol

anyway, my favourite quote:

"Those who fail to remember the past are condemmed to repeat it"
Georges Santayana.

found it in an old Mad compilation Don Newman book

 

[mattcalf]

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

 

[DLeeWebb]

"To know that you know what you know, and to know that you do not know what you do not know; this is true wisdom" - Confucius

"We study history not because we make it, but because we are made by it" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[Busta9iron]

"Tis better to keep your mouth shut, and let people think you are an idiot, than open your mouth, and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain

 

[Stevesebastianb]

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

- Albert Camus

 

[hew]

"A man's got to know his limitations."
Harry Callahan, Magnum Force

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
Barack Obama

 

[Calexico]

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"
John F. Kennedy

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."
Bertrand Russell

"That is why the philosophical rebel is so dear to us -- because he alone has the courage to say, "I have no clue what this **** is."

Of what value to society is such a stance? What does he add to the GNP of nations or to the riches of our souls? Most important, he is anathema to hoo-ha -- he does not swallow the Kool-Aid or follow the company line; he does not jump when the Man says jump -- he scarcely moves; he hardly hears the Man; he can hardly even see him; he has to squint. It's his constitution to be cautious and to ask the relevant question Why?"
I'm scattered and have no ambition -- what's wrong with me? | Salon Life

"I hid under your porch because I love you."
Dug from Pixar's Up

 

[Hettlerr]

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included." Karl Marx

"I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when you arrived." Groucho Marx

 

[milkweg]

"NOBody scares crap to avoid, but they avoid because
: its f_cking dirty." - Sokwoo Lee

 

[compuryan]

"If music be the food of love, play on." -William Shakespeare

 

[Aaquib]

"Why join the navy when you can be a pirate?" - Steve Jobs

 

[grape ape]

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. -Gertrude Stein

 

[monolith]

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley

"A man without religon is like a fish without a bicycle" -don't remember...

"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." -Mark Twain

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -also don't remember...

"Children are naïve -- they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble." -Frank Zappa


Sorry if the tones of some of them are religious, but those are honestly my favourite quotes, along with just about everything G.H. Hardy ever said.