The Great Quotes thread

[Eva2]

This magnificent refuge is inside you.
Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway…
Be bold. Be humble.
Put away the incense and forget
the incantations they taught you.
Ask no permission from the authorities.
Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads to the
invisible path that leads you home.
~ St. Theresa of Avila

I am out with lanterns looking for myself
- Emily Dickinson

[Alekahn2]

"Sell intelligence and talent
and buy pure wonder,
hurry towards humility."

~Rumi

[Bill Ryan]

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Otto von Bismarck, 1863

[norman]

"Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power" - Abraham Lincoln

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
~ Gandalf the Grey (The Lord of the Rings)

[kfm27917]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his income depends on his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair

[Jamie]

"Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted"
– Christine Caine

[kfm27917]

Change the way you look at things and
The thing you look at will change.

Shamyudha Ravindran

[Frankie Pancakes]

“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

”You have the sum of all human knowledge and experience at your fingertips yet you use it to argue with strangers and watch cat videos.” unknown

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand

Knowledge is good but without wisdom it's highly dangerous. unknown

[grapevine]

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”
- Anonymous -

[Bill Ryan]

I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Sir Isaac Newton

[Mari]

Think like a wise man, but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
~ Oscar Wilde

[pueblo]

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

- Cervantes

[Kryztian]

[kudzy]

“Now fight nicely!”
~ Mrs. Juba my seventh grade elementary school teacher

[Kryztian]

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

- - - T.S. Eliot, from "The Cocktail Party"

[kfm27917]

“The worst thing you can do in life is
underestimate your adversary.”

—PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON ,

[norman]

Posted by kfm27917 (here)
“The worst thing you can do in life is
underestimate your adversary.”

—PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON ,

waw, I can't help turning the quote I've brought to the thread into a reply to yours, on this occasion. they go together with hot topical clout.

Genocide is not a side effect - Dr Rima Laibow, 2024.

[Bill Ryan]

My wise and aged grandmother, trained in classics, used to have a motto that she would sometimes mutter under her breath in Latin. It's so true.

Some day it will amuse us to remember these things.​

After years of searching, I've found the source — from Virgil, in the first book of his Aeneid.