Cool Quotes
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” — Robert Heinlein
“One should respect public opinion insofar as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.” — Bertrand Russell
“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded, and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Chapter 3
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” — Hubert Humphrey
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” — Thomas Edison
“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.” — Voltaire, 1764
“He who dares not to offend cannot be honest.” — Thomas Paine
“When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.” — Erasmus
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” — Howard Aiken
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” — Herbert Spencer
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.” — Helen Keller
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” — Thomas Jefferson
“In the mirrors of many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I am a part of the evil which exists to oppose other evils. … on that Great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on that day when the world is completely cleansed of evil, then I, too, will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Perhaps even sooner than that, I now judge. But whatever… Until that time, I shall not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.” — Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon
“Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.” — Thomas Jefferson
“If I knew for certain that a man was coming to my house to do me good, I would run for my life.” — Henry David Thoreau
“It everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking.” — George Patton
“Organization! Hell! I’m the organization! … Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We are trying to accomplish something.” — Thomas Alva Edison, When asked what rules he ran his laboratory organization by; Wachhorst, Wyn, Thomas Alva Edison, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981, pp. 180-83
“(What is good in life?) To crush your enemies, to drive them before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.” — Conan, Conan the Barbarian
“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” — Winston Churchill
“There’s nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.” — Jim Hightower
“The history of the world is but the biography of heroes.” — Thomas Carlyle
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” — William James
“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.” — Chuck Norris
