Re: Know any good quotes?

[Sandra Craft]

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill

[Earthling]

I think my favorite quote from all time comes from my favorite writer of all time, Frank Herbert.

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty."

[hismikeness]

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.-- Joe Rogan

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.-- Lou Holtz

Try is what a steer does. -- Coach Norby

In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.-- Paul Harvey

[DeterminedJuliet]

I know it's a bit cliche to quote Ghandi, but I came across this one today: "Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."

I like it

[OldGit]

Proverbs 27 xiv

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

Not all the bible is nonsense!

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It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true - Bertrand Russell

[xSilverPhinx]

Proverbs 27 xiv

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

Should make a sign with those words and hang in on my door...

[OldGit]

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
(Against stupidity, even gods fight in vain.)  Friedrich Schiller

[hismikeness]

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are. -- Nolan Bushnell

[Norfolk And Chance]

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is a duck - Some bloke.

[Attila]

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg (we share a birthday

[Attila]

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. -Bertrand Russell

[Davin]

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. — H.P. Lovecraft

[Norfolk And Chance]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - Some bloke who gave theists a get out.

Also, the quote is often used as a credible retort, well actually I disagree with the quote and do not respect it's ultimate authority. So eff off, whoever said it.

[Sandra Craft]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - Some bloke who gave theists a get out.

Also, the quote is often used as a credible retort, well actually I disagree with the quote and do not respect it's ultimate authority. So eff off, whoever said it.

I think it's true tho -- just because we don't have evidence for something yet doesn't mean we won't discover it someday.  Just because theists can make use of it doesn't changes that, and besides, they're still on the hook to provide evidence for any claims they make.  Possible future evidence for claims they make about their god today are no more meaningful than those I make for the invisible dragon in my garage.  And there will be evidence some day for my dragon, I know it in my heart!

[Norfolk And Chance]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - Some bloke who gave theists a get out.

Also, the quote is often used as a credible retort, well actually I disagree with the quote and do not respect it's ultimate authority. So eff off, whoever said it.

I think it's true tho -- just because we don't have evidence for something yet doesn't mean we won't discover it someday.  Just because theists can make use of it doesn't changes that, and besides, they're still on the hook to provide evidence for any claims they make.  Possible future evidence for claims they make about their god today are no more meaningful than those I make for the invisible dragon in my garage.  And there will be evidence some day for my dragon, I know it in my heart!

It is true though.

The reason stuff doesn't have evidence to support it is because it doesn't exist. If it did it would. Excluding  Exoplanets.