I selected a small subset of my favorite quotes for you to name (identify) the author.  Have fun!



1.      “I call architecture frozen music.” __________________

2.      “Let spades be trumps! She said, and trumps they were.” ______________

3.      “Brevity is the soul of wit.” ____________________

4.      “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ___________________

5.      “We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.” __________________

6.      “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.” ________________________

7.      “The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.” ________________________

8.      “A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.” _______________________

9.      “An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.” ______________

10. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” __________________

11. “’Tis a lesson you should heed, / Try, try again.” ___________________

12. “Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.” __________________

13. “No nation was ever ruined by trade.” ______________________

14. “Space isn’t remote at all.  It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” ____________________________

15. “Space – the final frontier.” ________________________

16. “Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.” ______________

17. “The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.” ___________________________

18. “What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.” _____________

19. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.  An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” ______________

20. “There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.” _________

21. “Music, when soft voices die, / Vibrates in the memory.” ___________

22. “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’” _________

23. “Who has seen the wind? / Neither you nor I; / But when the trees bow down their heads, / The wind is passing by.” __________________

24. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” _______________

25. “Why is philosophy so complicated?  It ought to be entirely simple.” _______

26. “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” ___________

Source: http://megasociety.org/noesis/168.htm