From 4b49356667f4640c32e7da403b330128c9fb3e04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bernie Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:04:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Edit page GreatQuotes --- GreatQuotes | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index 22a9461..ca6e3c1 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -1,39 +1,77 @@ -"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] +"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." \\ +-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] -"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -- also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] +"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\ +-- also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] -"God has no religion" -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again +"God has no religion" \\ +-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again -When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] +When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] -On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, -a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, -"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] :-) +On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\ +a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, \\ +"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] :-) -"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"I only know one race: the human one." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"I only know one race: the human one." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]] +"Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]] -"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] +"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] -"Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." -- [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]] +"Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. \\ +That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." \\ +— [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]] -"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” \\ +— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 -"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] +"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]] +"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. \\ +All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, +lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\ +the individual towards freedom. \\ +— [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]] -"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] -"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock | Spock]], Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan -"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]] -Looking at a mass of things for sale in Athens: "How many things I can do without!" -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] on consumerism +"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] + +"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] + +"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] + +Looking at a mass of things for sale in Athens: "How many things I can do without!" \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] on consumerism + +--- + +1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\ +2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\ +— [[http://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]] -- 2.25.1