Meaningful ideas and quotes

[*Deidre*]

I started a thread on TTA with the same concept, but not sure how many here post over there. So, here is the same thread for AF. The one on TTA has been going well, it's interesting to see what ideas, and quotes move people.

I'll start...

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” ~Plato

''If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.'' ~ Einstein

[paulpablo]

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

-Mike Tyson.

I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

-Genghis Khan.

[ApeNotKillApe]

''If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.'' ~ Einstein

That's going straight into my lexicon.


"In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
- Immanuel Kant

[Angrboda]

"It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics."

— Swami Vivekananda, "Religion not the Crying need of India"

[Angrboda]

"Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can."
— Thucydides

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
— Thucydides

[Minimalist]

Non urinat in ventum.


(Don't piss into the wind.)

-- An anonymous Roman sailor

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.' - Peter Drucker

'The best way to predict your future is to create it.' ibid

Boru

[Napoléon]

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[*Deidre*]

*takes notes*
These are good!

[brewer]

Freedom imparts reality to the mechanics of photons.

http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/

Sorry, have no self restraint.