Life Quotes

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done
--Ludwig Wittgenstein

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
--Albert Camus

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be
--William Hazlitt

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
--Lao Tzu

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet
--William Gibson

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
--Dick Cavett

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell

You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here . . . I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me
-- Richard Feynman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man
--George Bernard Shaw

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
--Hunter S. Thompson

He not busy being born is busy
dying
--Bob Dylan

A confession has to be part of your new life
--Ludwig Wittgenstein

The bias towards coherence favours over confidence. An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true
--Daniel Kahneman

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse illusion with reality
--David Cronenberg

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong
--Albert Einstein

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people
--Stephen Hawking

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
--Soren Kierkegaard

The basic strategy for coping with information overload is myth
--Marshall McLuhan
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done
--Ludwig Wittgenstein

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
--Albert Camus

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be
--William Hazlitt

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
--Lao Tzu

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet
--William Gibson

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
--Dick Cavett

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell

You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here . . . I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me
-- Richard Feynman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man
--George Bernard Shaw

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
--Hunter S. Thompson

He not busy being born is busy
dying
--Bob Dylan

A confession has to be part of your new life
--Ludwig Wittgenstein

The bias towards coherence favours over confidence. An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true
--Daniel Kahneman

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse illusion with reality
--David Cronenberg

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong
--Albert Einstein

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people
--Stephen Hawking

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
--Soren Kierkegaard

The basic strategy for coping with information overload is myth
--Marshall McLuhan