quoth/eggplant

Quote #3139

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:58:08 -0800

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Proverb: Chinese Proverb

Quote #3136

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:52:46 -0800

Success builds character. Failure reveals it.
- Dave Checkett

Quote #3076

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:55:22 -0700

Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.
- Marshall McLuhan

Quote #3075

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:42:01 -0700

Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves.
- Henry Jenkins
Book: Convergence Culture

Quote #3073

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:40:18 -0700

If you love someone tell them. Most importantly, stay close to your friends. Let it make a difference in your day and theirs.
- Jerry Warlop

Quote #3062

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:37:16 -0700

The object of a liberal training is not learning, but discipline and the enlightenment of the mind. The educated man is to be discovered by his point of view, by the temper of his mind, by hit attitude towards life and his fair way of thinking. He can see, he can discriminate, he can combine ideas and perceieve whither they lead; he has insight and comprehension. His mind is a pracised instrument of appreciation. He is more apt to contribute light than heat to a discussion, and will oftener than another show the power of uniting the elements of a difficult subject in a whole view; he has the knowledge of the world which no one can have who knows only his own generation or only his own task.

What we should seek to impart in our colleges, therefore, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. You can impart that to young men; and you can impart it to them in the three or four years at your disposal. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical prcesses of thought and yet and instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick in the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind. It is citizenship of the world of knowledge, but not ownership of it.
- Woodrow Wilson

Quote #3054

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:47:53 -0700

Raphael, you always bear the world's problems on your shoulders. It is an admirable quality when you are a protector of others. But you must realize that while at times you might not be my favorite student, it does not mean that you are my least favorite son. You are strong, passionate, and loyal to your fault. These are the merits of a great leader as well, but only when tempered with compassion and humility.
- Master Splinter
Movie: TMNT

Quote #3000

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:51:04 -0800

I hate you because you crawl within my head as she does, but your presence holds no thoughts, no teachings, you are just... there, unspoken. I hate you because you are beautiful to me. And in that weakness lies death.
- Darth Sion
Video game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Quote #2830

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:39:47 -0700

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
- Bertrand Russell

Quote #2827

Sun, 25 May 2008 10:05:19 -0700

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live.
- Charles Snitow

Quote #2817

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:06:43 -0700

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, "I'd like my crayons back, please."
- Hugh Macleod
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Quote #2803

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:03:35 -0800

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip G. Hamerton

Quote #2793

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:24:28 -0800

Of all weapons, Love is the most deadly and devastating and few there be who thrust their fate in its hands.
- Howard Thurman

Quote #2792

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:30:47 -0800

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things.
- Epictetus

Quote #2785

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:03:01 -0800

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso

Quote #2778

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:16:49 -0800

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Kahlil Gibran

Quote #2776

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:44:29 -0800

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
- Henri Poincare

Quote #2765

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:51:46 -0800

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anaïs Nin

Quote #2762

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:19:46 -0700

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.
- Madeleine l'Engle

Quote #2759

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:31:17 -0700

They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
- Gerald Massey

Quote #2748

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:19:34 -0700

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
- John Galsworthy

Quote #2747

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:11:36 -0700

No one wants advice - only corroboration.
- John Steinbeck

Quote #2737

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:36:31 -0700

It's like driving a car at night. You never see farther than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
- E. L. Doctorow

Quote #2724

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:42:49 -0700

My goal as a writer is for the player to want to see the cutscenes. Earn your audience. Forcing people to sit through your glorified fanfic is the gaming equivalent of date rape.
- Ken Levine
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3153215

Quote #2721

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:12:16 -0700

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde

Quote #2720

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:35:43 -0700

Being hung over is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret!
- T-Rex
Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001055.html

Quote #2719

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:30:44 -0700

The monk did not questions...or reason...or argue. He would either bend his will - and surrender that which he had promised to protect - or he would sacrifice the only life he had ever known. It struck his heart with a sureness...a fierceness of clarity. He had given his word... And his word was his bond.
- Kamimura
Broken Saints

Quote #2713

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:13:17 -0700

There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
- Dante Alighieri
Poem: The Divine Comedy

Quote #2707

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:02:23 -0700

It is funny how people will talk of the sky falling. It really can't fall, but at one point, people thought it could. The truth is the sky just is, and what matters is what lies under it.
- Rob Heslin

Quote #2693

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:17:14 -0700

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot
Poem: Little Gidding

Quote #2690

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:53:55 -0700

Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truely; the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence...
- Dinobot
TV: Beast Wars

Quote #2688

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:06:01 -0700

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov

Quote #2681

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:45:10 -0700

Every desire for good and happiness is for each person a very great and insidious Love. (...) Love is the desire to possess what is good for ever.
- Plato

Quote #2680

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:45:23 -0700

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - French writer (1873-1954)

Quote #2646

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:25:42 -0700

The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted; Let these be your God.
- Swami Vivekananda

Quote #2645

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:46:46 -0700

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
- Robert Anton Wilson

Quote #2641

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:14:39 -0700

Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!
- T-Rex
Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=955

Quote #2640

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:30:33 -0700

All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Harry S. Truman

Quote #2635

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:22:59 -0800

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
- Sir William Osler

Quote #2564

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:17:04 -0800

There's nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.
- Scott Adams
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Quote #2551

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:09:08 -0800

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- Edward Abbey

Quote #2546

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:11:14 -0800

Those who believe in the power of broad patterns and rules, rather than the authority of individuals or institutions, are not intimidated by the boundaries and hierarchies of knowledge.
- Malcolm Gladwell

Quote #2539

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:40:35 -0800

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead

Quote #2537

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:27:27 -0800

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery

Quote #2536

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:37:15 -0800

Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

Quote #2535

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:36:58 -0800

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Quote #2512

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:09:08 -0800

...But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
- Dr. Manhattan
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore

Quote #2510

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:47:04 -0800

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.
- Dr. Manhattan
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore

Quote #2483

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:27:00 -0800

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape... But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.
- Dr. Manhattan
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore

Quote #2482

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:45:58 -0800

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. As it is, the act of purchasing them is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their content.
- Arthur Schopenhauer - German philosopher (1788-1860)