Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Allen Tate

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

Aesop

A false tale often betrays itself.

Abraham Lincoln

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Alfred Nobel

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

Aldous Huxley

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

Aldous Huxley

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

Albert Pike

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Adolf Loos

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Karl Kraus

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Paul Tillich

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Jonathan Ive

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

Jonathan Ive

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World history is a court of judgment.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Mahatma Gandhi

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Yvon Chouinard

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Zac Efron

There's no point in being scared of just trying.

Zach Braff

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

Yuri Kochiyama

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Yuri Milner

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

Yuri Milner

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Zhang Yimou

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

Ziggy Marley

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.