Quotes - Max (The United States) Showing 1-14 of 14

#1

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

#2

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence

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#3

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#4

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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#5

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#6

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

2450 likes

#7

“Act without expectation.”
― Lao Tzu

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#8

“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu

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#9

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment”
― Lao Tzu

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#10

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#11

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

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#12

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational

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#13

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

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#14

“Excellence is an Art
Won by Training and Habit.
We do not act rightly
Because we have Virtue and Excellence,
But rather, we have Virtue and Excellence
Because we act rightly.”
― Aristotle

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