“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Category Archives for Echoes
Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf
“Shapes of things before my eyes
Just teach me to despise
Will time make man more wise
Here within my lonely frame
My eyes just hurt my brain
But will it seem the same”
Mark Twain
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”
Henry Rollins
“No such thing as spare time. No such thing as free time. No such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”
Gerhard Richter
“Art is the highest form of hope.”
John Lennon
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
Peter Alexander
“Why should Americans trust you when you accuse the information they receive as being fake when you’re providing information that’s fake?
(said to President Trump)
Mark Twain
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Rick Warren
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”
Donald D. Quinn
“If a doctor, lawyer or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing troubled the doctor, lawyer or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the teacher’s job.”
Russ Meyer
“You have to understand, my job is to get people through the night.”
Mark Twain
“It’s much easier to fool people, than convince them they’ve been fooled.”
John Oliver
“Yes, the sun will rise each day, but the continuing rotation of the Earth should not be your baseline expectation of American society.”
George Carlin
“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
Oscar Wilde
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Robert Frost
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Bill Murray
“It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win one with a stupid person.”
Matt Taibbi
“Trump doesn’t need to win anything to become the most dangerous person in America. He can do plenty of damage just by encouraging people to be as uninhibited in their stupidity as he is.”
Gordon Lightfoot
“Sometimes I think it’s a sin when I feel like I’m winning when I’m losing again.”
