Favourite Quotes, Proverbs etc.

I considered creating this topic on the "Just for Fun" section, yet figured that we might get enlightened and might learn from each other.

I'll begin with a simple but wise one.



Edited by Shadowyzard - March 03 2020 at 15:18

I'm paraphrasing: "The first step on the road to wisdom is the recognition of one's own ignorance" (Plato/Socrates).

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
--Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) on Richard Wagner

"Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine."

(Ar scawh a chxall-yah a wir-enn na dee-neh.)

Under the shelter of each other, people survive.

Edited by MortSahlFan - March 04 2020 at 13:36

Two from Winston Churchill:

Edited by The Dark Elf - March 04 2020 at 17:35

“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and subject that group to certain conditions. They compare the results with a second group which has not been disturbed. This second group is called the control group. It is the control group which enables the scientist gauge the effect of his experiment. To judge the significance of what has occurred. In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change."  

Edited by TCat - March 08 2020 at 13:41