Insight
Here’s the entire list of quotes on Clever Doll. These quotes also appear randomly in the sidebar as ‘insights’. Good stuff!
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Children are all foreigners.
Never judge a book by its movie.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
I like life. It's something to do.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner, and wink your eye at some homely girl.