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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 15, 2020 19:32:12 GMT -5
“Man is born crying, and when he has cried enough, he dies”.
(Ran, by Akira Kurosawa).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 30, 2020 7:01:35 GMT -5
"Laughter is like a car's wiper. It doesn't stop the rain, but allows you to keep going".
(Origin uncertain)
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Post by Duragizer on Jun 2, 2020 14:12:07 GMT -5
"Your indolence is inefficacious."
— Charles Montgomery Burns
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 2, 2020 14:54:22 GMT -5
Saw this randomly on the internet so not sure it source but it's stuck with me.
"Life is just gathering attendees for your funeral."
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Post by Jesse on Jun 8, 2020 22:03:20 GMT -5
― Georgia O'Keeffe
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 9, 2020 6:11:04 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 3:35:48 GMT -5
"But it's time that has taken my tomorrows
And turned them into yesterdays"
-Beh Harper, from Walk Away
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 9, 2020 3:55:52 GMT -5
"Progress is a possibility for the animal: it can be broken in, tamed and trained; but it is not a possibility for the fool, because the fool thinks he has nothing to learn. It is his place to dictate to others and put them right, and so it is impossible to reason with him. He will laugh you to scorn in saying that what he does not understand is not a meaningful proposition. 'Why don't I understand it, then?', he asks you, with marvellous impudence. To tell him it is because he is a fool would only be taken as an insult, so there is nothing you can say in reply. Everybody else sees it quite clearly, but he will never realize it."
— Éliphas Lévi
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Post by Jesse on Jul 9, 2020 8:55:07 GMT -5
― Helen Keller
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 9, 2020 12:03:27 GMT -5
"I pity the fool." - Mr. T If only I could rise to that level more often.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 13, 2020 6:45:56 GMT -5
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned".
- Richard Feynman
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 31, 2020 18:20:48 GMT -5
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."
― Simone Weil
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 2, 2020 6:10:36 GMT -5
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." ― Simone Weil I like that. On the other hand, a lot of intelligent people insist that they're actually dumb as posts, and not out of false modesty; it's a matter of perspective. It's the same thing with knowledge: the more one knows, the more one realizes how incredibly ignorant one really is. We are so very small and the universe is so huge... I am in awe of people whose thought processes allow them to conceive of ideas that are out of reach for most of us. That Isaac Newton invented calculus because he needed it to explain the movement of the planets is so amazing that were it to happen in a comic, I'd call it plot-mandated nonsense! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 4, 2020 8:05:48 GMT -5
«What you don't tell your friends, your enemies don't know».
I wish I remembered where I read that... That saying crystallizes what I think about sensitive information.
I dislike it when people tell me "I said I wouldn't repeat this to anyone, but..." and then proceed to tell me something that is none of my business. While I appreciate the implied compliment about my own discretion, I am convinced that if someone asks you to keep a secret, you don't talk about it. Ever. To anyone. It's a bloody secret.
It's like Pandora's can of worms: once you let a mixed metaphor out of the box, it's impossible to recapture it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 13:22:02 GMT -5
«What you don't tell your friends, your enemies don't know». I wish I remembered where I read that... That saying crystallizes what I think about sensitive information. I dislike it when people tell me "I said I wouldn't repeat this to anyone, but..." and then proceed to tell me something that is none of my business. While I appreciate the implied compliment about my own discretion, I am convinced that if someone asks you to keep a secret, you don't talk about it. Ever. To anyone. It's a bloody secret. It's like Pandora's can of worms: once you let a mixed metaphor out the box, it's impossible to recapture it. Along the same lines there's Ben Franklin's "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead." and "To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly." –William Scott Downey -M |
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