Most profound quotation you have read or heard?

"Only the insane equate pain with success"

The Cheshire Cat from American Mcgee's Alice in Wonderland.

"Never give in, never give in, never give in." W.Churchill

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The conditions of a solitary bird are five:

1. It flies to the highest point;
2. It does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind;
3. It aims its beak to the skies;
4. It does not have a definite color;
5. It sings very softly.

San Juan De la Cruz

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"Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace." B.Hicks

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Thank you all for posting these wonderful and enlightening quotes.

Originally posted by TheAscension
“Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.”

- Benjamin Franklin

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

- Edgar Allen Poe

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

- Edgar Allen Poe

[edit on 12-5-2009 by TheAscension]

Amazing quotes That first Edgar Allen Poe quote is going to keep me up at night....

I like the simplest one:

"this too, shall pass" It is the one that I use the most whenever I am worried or sad or scared.

The one in my signature is also one of my favorites. It is by Churchill


[edit on 12/5/09 by Lebowski achiever]

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross.

"Life is tough. But it's tougher when you're stupid."
Whoever wrote the line for John Wayne's character
in "The Sands of Iwo Jima".




[edit on 12-5-2009 by 1SawSomeThings]

similarization through association

you can't always control the actions of others, but you can always control your participation therein or lack thereof.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

- George Carlin

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity".

Albert Einstein

“Go on your way - act like you never met me - and send me a post card from crazy town...”

I’ve no idea who said this or where I heard it...




[edit on 12-5-2009 by silo13]

Mine is:

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

Said by someone here on ATS a while ago.

"don't screw anything you wouldn't want to kiss"
-b. voss

"she stole my heart, not my eyes"
-b. voss

This is a quote from the poem Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada ." if every rebellion begins with the idea
that conquerors on horseback
are not many-legged gods, that they too drown
if plunged in the river,
then this is the year."

Smile and the world smile's with ya.
Fart and you stand alone.

always a favorite

"I don't want to believe. I want to know"
-Carl Sagan

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
Bruce Feirstein

"The young know everything, the middle aged question everything, the old believe everything." - origin other than my Opa unknown

''I never let schooling interfere with my education.''
Mark Twain

"A child's rhyme stuck in my head. It said that life is but a dream. I've spent so many years in question to find I've known this all along." Tool, Third Eye

P.S. I'd post the whole song if it wouldn't get me scolded for violating T&C, I recommend everyone read it, great stuff there in my opinion!
www.lyricsmode.com...

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
Friedrich Nietzsche