Quotes
Philosophy
Confucious
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Aristotle
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Epicurus
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Rashi
Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.
Blaise Pascal
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. [*]
Pierre-Simon Laplace
I had no need of that hypothesis. [*]
Novels, books, movies, TV shows
Pale Blue Dot
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Star Trek
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
In Star Trek: The Next Generation
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!
Spock
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.
Live Long and Prosper. 🖖
You mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of my not caring. Well, I assure you, the truth is precisely the opposite.
Jean-Luc Picard
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
The Witcher
Geralt of Rivia, The Last Wish
...if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
BoJack Horseman
Mr. Peanutbutter
The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually you'll be dead.
Red vs. Blue
Super Colonel Sarge
In Red vs. Blue S12E12 "The Reunion"
We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled.
The IT Crowd
Maurice Moss
I came here to drink milk and kick ass. And I've just finished my milk.
I like being weird. Weird's all I've got. That and my sweet style.
Billy Madison
Principal
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Science
Carl Sagan
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Richard Feynman
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
Miscellaneous
Douglas Adams
In The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Dirk Gently #2
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
James Randi
I've said it before: there are two sorts of atheists. One sort claims that there is no deity, the other claims that there is no evidence that proves the existence of a deity; I belong to the latter group, because if I were to claim that no god exists, I would have to produce evidence to establish that claim, and I cannot. Religious persons have by far the easier position; they say they believe in a deity because that's their preference, and they've read it in a book. That's their right.
Rob Siltanen
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Michael Stevens (Vsauce)
I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move. [*]
TheReportOfTheWeek
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined. [*]
Ward Cunningham
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
Catchphrases
Back to the Future
Dr. Emmet Brown
Great Scott!
1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!!!!
Star Trek
The Borg
Resistance is futile.
Futurama
Professor Fansworth
Good news, everyone!
Bender
Bite my shiny metal a**!
Hermes Conrad
Sweet lamprey of Santa Fe!
Cursed bacteria of Liberia!
Great bonda of Uganda!
Great cow of Moscow!
Sacred boa of West and Eastern Samoa!
Sacred hog of Prague!
Sweet bongo of the Congo!
Sweet candelabra of Le Havre, LaBarbara!
Sweet coincidence of Port-au-Prince
Sweet ego of Montego!
Sweet freak of Mozambique!
Sweet ghost of Babylon!
Sweet giant anteater of Santa Anita!
Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!
Sweet honey bee of infinity!
Sweet kookaburra of Edinburgh!
Sweet lion of Zion!
Sweet llamas of the Bahamas!
Sweet manatee of Galilee!
Sweet orca of Mallorca!
Sweet orgy of Georgia!
Sweet pyro of Cairo!
Sweet reawakenin' of me, a Jamaican-in!
Sweet robot swan of Botswana!
Sweet squid of Madrid!
Sweet three-toed sloth of the ice planet Hoth!
Sweet toke of Ocracoke!
Sweet topology of cosmology!
Sweet yeti of the Serengeti!
Sweet fireball of Montreal!
Sweet gorilla of Manila!
Sweet something... of... someplace...
Harry Potter
Merlin's beard!
The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon Cooper
Bazinga!