Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Famous Quotations by famous People.....11

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working." - Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
"There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet." - Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." - Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"A clever man commits no minor blunders." - Goethe (1749-1832)
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera." - James Stephens (1882-1950)
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

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