Thursday, October 16, 2008

quotable quotes.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.--Ludwig Wittgenstein

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.--Sigmund Freud

Genius is nothing but continued attention.-- Claude A. Helvetius

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.--Benjamin Disraeli

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.--Dean Acheson

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.--Peter Ustinov

One of the surest signs that intelligent life exists in outer space is that none of it has tried to contact us.--Normandy Alden

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.--Kierkegaard

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.--Steven Wright

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