Quotes - Tom (Belleville, IL) Showing 1-14 of 14

#1

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

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#2

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#3

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3113 likes

#4

“There's a terror in knowing what the world is about”
― David Bowie

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#5

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

tags: wisdom

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#6

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#7

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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#8

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

[Inside Out (VH1)]”
― Warren Zevon

tags: books, passage-of-time, reading, time

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#9

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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#10

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: science

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#11