Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ Niels Bohr
  • selected by Kalki
2005
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (born 22 June 1906)
  • proposed by Kalki
2006
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • proposed by Kalki
2007
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • proposed by Kalki
2009
This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet. ~ Julian Huxley
  • proposed by Kalki
2010
In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power. ~ Julian Huxley
  • proposed by Kalki
2011
That government is best which makes itself unnecessary. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
We see what we are told that we see.
Repetition and pride are the keys to this.
To hear and to see
Even an obvious lie
Again
And again and again
May be to say it,
Almost by reflex
Then to defend it
Because we have said it
And at last to embrace it
Because we've defended it.
~ Octavia Butler ~
  • proposed by Ningauble
2013
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
The entire cosmos is made out of one and the same world-stuff, operated by the same energy as we ourselves. "Mind" and "matter" appears as two aspects of our unitary mind-bodies. There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. There is no basic cleavage between science and religion; they are both organs of evolving humanity.
~ Julian Huxley ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
The true end of Man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
One sole God;
One sole ruler, — his Law;
One sole interpreter of that law — Humanity.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini ~
  • proposed by Kalki


2020 
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You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!' - Vizzini, The Princess Bride

Rationale: On June 22, Nazi Germany began w:Operation Barbarossa -- got into a land war an Asia, a major turning point in WWII.
  • 3 MosheZadka 00:12, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2. I love this quote, but my fellow Americans might question which nation's mistakes are being celebrated here, especially if followed in 4 days by the Malraux quote. Jeff Q (talk) 10:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 One of my favorites from the movie, I remember laughing out loud at its perfect delivery, but I don't feel it makes a great QotD. ~ Kalki 20:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 04:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself. ~ Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery as it seems a little more relevant to w:Operation Barbarossa.

  • Also I added it myself AllanHainey 12:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 because this is true. Russia's winter is nature's powerful gift that helped win two wars, one against Napoleon and another against Hitler. I love this quote. Zarbon 04:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands. ~ Morpheus (Deus Ex) (Rationale: the release date of Deus Ex)

—This unsigned comment is by Deuxhero (talk • contribs) .
Seconded. I loved how snooping around in that game could lead you to things that would make the game so much better. --Dandin1 01:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 23:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 04:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

What we now need is a multitude of participants to take part in the great discussion and to join in the search for the larger truth and the more fruitful patterns of belief which we confidently believe is waiting to be elicited. ~ Julian Huxley

  • 3 Kalki 21:31, 20 June 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
  • 1 Zarbon 22:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:07, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?
~ Giuseppe Mazzini ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:07, 2 April 2016 (UTC)


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