The "old but still relevant quotes" thread

[widebody911]

[pwd72s]

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. [Confucious]

[smadsen]

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" -Aldous Huxley

[Dansvan]

It’s a wise man who knows he isn’t.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. [Confucious]

“The measure of a man is what he does with power”... Plato

[GH85Carrera]

[sammyg2]

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

B. Obama

[sammyg2]

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin

[sammyg2]

BTW the thread is about quotes. Not catch phrases or "clever" excuses.

[sammyg2]

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.

Thomas Jefferson

[sammyg2]

[Gogar]

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”

Henry Ford

[wdfifteen]

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Too bad so many people leave out the last two lines when they quote this.

[sc_rufctr]

[craigster59]

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
~ Dr. Seuss

[craigster59]

"Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.”
~Zen proverb

[widebody911]

[widebody911]

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Too bad so many people leave out the last two lines when they quote this.

What's really too bad is Thomas Jefferson didn't say it.