41 Fun Facts+

The present is the point at which time touches eternity.

- C. S. Lewis

Never assume the obvious is true.
- William Safire

Time and tide wait for no man.
- English Proverb

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Every madman thinks that all the rest of the world is mad.
- Latin Proverb

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
- Luke 6:26

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.- Ayn Rand

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
- Arthur Helps

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
- Epicurus

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Good advice costs nothing and is worth the price.
- Walter A. Benz

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
- Charles Kettering

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
- George Bernard Shaw

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
- James A. Froude

Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom. - John Milton

The true university these days is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. It is thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
- Thomas Fuller

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
- Francois La Rouchefoucauld

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman thinks of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke

Leonardo Da Vinchi Quotes

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"God sells us all things at the price of labor."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Simply put, he is using literate or mathematical matter.

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

Damn.

"I have wasted my hours."

Double damn.

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." .... "Learning never exhausts the mind." .... "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Personal favorite.

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."

"Life well spent is long."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

Rebellious one o da Vinchi~

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

haha

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

I love this one!

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

Jerry Springer show.

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"

"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."

"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." 

Favorite Sayings and Quotations

Every successful revolt is termed a revolution, and every unsuccessful one a rebellion.
- Joseph Priestly

Maturity of mind is capacity to endure uncertainty. - Confucius

Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense of what not to believe.
- Euripides

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- George S. Patton

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
- William Cowper

My logic is undeniable.
V.I.K.I, from the movie I, Robot

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them. 
- Charron

Toleration in religion is absolutely the best fruit of all the struggles, labors and sorrows of the civilized nations during the last four centuries. 
- Charles William Eliot

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.
- Benjamin Franklin

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- Thomas Jefferson

The dogmatist is sure of everything, and the skeptic believes nothing.
- Dr. I. Watts

Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great....
G. W. F. Hegel

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley

My country is the world and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine

To a few rashness brings luck, to most misfortune.
- Phaedrus

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world.
- Japanese Proverb

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
- Berthold Auerbach

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Voltaire

Remember no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune or too sorrowful in your misfortune.
- Socrates

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.
- Gotthold Lessing

The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
- Frank A. Garbutt

Better face a danger once than always be in fear.
- Proverb

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
- William Ralph Inge

Chance is a word devoid of sense, nothing can exist without a cause.
- Voltaire

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt.
- Antoinette Deshoulieres

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
- Jeremy Taylor

Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent.
- Robert Bernstein

What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent idiocy.
- Marie Corelli