I like that one too. A lot of times when I’m finishing one thing (school, uni), I am moving on to something new and better! One of my favourite quotes is from the Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman. It’s rather long, but bear with me:
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination – stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one – million – year – old light. A vast pattern – of which I am a part… What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”
That is a good one – I think mine is “old age is mandatory, maturity is optional” (it is from an American poet called Ogden Nash – you may have heard his poem Custard the Dragon)
For me that means that while my body may get older (and the only way to stop that is to die) I can still keep a child-like attitude in my mind. Although you could interpret it that experience does not equate to common sense, and that probably applies to me too.
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I like that one too. A lot of times when I’m finishing one thing (school, uni), I am moving on to something new and better! One of my favourite quotes is from the Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman. It’s rather long, but bear with me:
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination – stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one – million – year – old light. A vast pattern – of which I am a part… What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”
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@future: I like both of these 🙂
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
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That is a good one – I think mine is “old age is mandatory, maturity is optional” (it is from an American poet called Ogden Nash – you may have heard his poem Custard the Dragon)
For me that means that while my body may get older (and the only way to stop that is to die) I can still keep a child-like attitude in my mind. Although you could interpret it that experience does not equate to common sense, and that probably applies to me too.
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Probably this one:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
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