Often times our character is revealed more through the quotes
that we find meaningful than through the claims that we make
about ourselves. Following are some of my favorite quotes.
Gerald Weinberg
A crisis is just the end of an illusion.
Things are the way they are because they got that way.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as
not to seem worth stating, and end up with something so paradoxical
than no one will believe it. -Bertrand Russell
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program;
all else is prophecy. -Herbert Simon
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he
learned in school. -Albert Einstein
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been
taught. -George Savile
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within
himself. - Galileo Galilei
Life is what's happening while we're busy making other plans. -John
Lennon
H.L. Mencken
There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who
believes it.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always
dull.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking.
Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2.
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear
Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. -Julius Caesar, Act 1,
Scene 2.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -William
James
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't
get that you don't want. -Oscar Wilde
People forget years and remember moments. -Ann Beattie
Men have become the tools of their tools. -Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The
true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. -Samuel Johnson
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -Mark Twain
Arthur Schopenhauer
What a man is counts much more to his happiness than what he
has, or
how he is regarded by others.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
The chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the
little pleasure he takes in other's company.
What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing
but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining
thirty supply the commentary.
Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things
-Epictetus
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca
A man's life is what his thoughts make it. -Marcus Aurelius
A man's character is his fate - Heraclitus
Those last three quotes were from famous Stoics. If you liked them, then
you should check out my Stoic Maxims.