Quotes

A dated selection of quotes

Richard Feynman:

We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, 'You don't know what you are talking about!' The second one says 'What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?

Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it

Niels Bohr :

An expert is a man who has made every mistake in a very narrow field

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think

Karl Marx:

Religion is the opium of the masses

Albert Camus:

What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better

George Bernard Shaw:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man

Albert Einstein:

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it

Imagination is more important than knowledge

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must, above all, be a sheep

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide ones sources

Winston Churchill:

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable

Bertrand Russel:

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Friedrich Nietzche:

Women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent

David Hume:

Reason is merely the slave of the passions

Ghandi:

You must be the change you wish to see in this world

Barry LePatner:

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Unknown:

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence