Your favourite quotes

[Cleo]

"In front of every laid-back person, is a stressed person dealing with all the cr@p".

 

                                                                                  

 

 

                                                                               ~  My Husband.       

[Prince Barin]

Get to know yourself and you will win in thousand battkes. Sun Tzu the Azt of War

[Morpheus]

 

"the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible” come true."

 

 

 

F.Scott Fitzgerald 

[JCP]

4 hours ago, Morpheus said:

 

"the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible” come true."

 

 

 

F.Scott Fitzgerald 

 

That is an interesting yet dangerous quote for these times because it seems to promote doublethink. I don't agree that seeing things as hopeless, and being determined to make them otherwise, as necessarily being opposing ideas. Here are some quotes from George Orwell's 1984 that speak about doublethink:

 

1.

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength. 

2.

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

3.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

4.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

5.

You are a slow learner, Winston.” Said O’Brien gently.

“How can I help it?” he blubbered. How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”

“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

6.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O’Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O’Brien: You do not exist.

7.

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

8.

It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.

9.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

10.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

[alexa]

[webtrekker]

Siphonaptera

 

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on

 

~ Augustus De Morgan

 

 

 

[Morpheus]

6 hours ago, JCP said:

That is an interesting yet dangerous quote for these times because it seems to promote doublethink

Context is everything 

[alexa]

[JCP]

Albert Camus

[JCP]

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

Joseph Campbell

[DaleP]

"To get where no one goes, you need to walk alone"

 

 

[legion]

" When you come to a fork in the road.........just go around it "

 

[Mr H]

"You only lose when you quit. So if you don't quit you can't lose" - Razor Ramon.

[Mr Crabtree]

'We all have to follow them golden rules, and them that has the gold, make them rules! =Rufus 'Bearcat' Thomas famous American Bluesman!

 

I add a rider to this quote, = no one on this forum follows the Elites 'Golden Rules' no matter how hard they try to foist them on us!

[Mr Crabtree]

1 hour ago, Mr H said:

"You only lose when you quit. So if you don't quit you can't lose" - Razor Ramon.

A winner never loses, and a loser never wins!  22 SAS QUOTE!

[screamingeagle]

On 11/12/2022 at 9:03 PM, legion said:

" When you come to a fork in the road.........just go around it "

 

Ghost rider approwes

[JCP]

[Bombadil]

[DaleP]

Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.

[JCP]

"The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.” ~ William Blake

[LastOneLeftInTheCounty]

Can’t remember who said this but will always remember the quote- “those who think they know do not, those who know they do not know, know.”

[Bombadil]

1 hour ago, LastOneLeftInTheCounty said:

Can’t remember who said this but will always remember the quote- “those who think they know do not, those who know they do not know, know.”

1 Corinthians 8:2 The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. (biblehub.com)

[Campion]

5 hours ago, Bombadil said:

1 Corinthians 8:2 The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. (biblehub.com)

Also a similar quote is in  Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 56 . I wonder if there's a connection or if it's just a coincidence. 

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know. 

Edited November 30, 2022 by Campion

[Mr Crabtree]

Never put off until tomorrow the things that you can do today, because if you like what you do today, you can always do it again tomorrow!

 

Never criticise anyone until you've walked a mile in their shoes, and if you still think they're a cunt, at least you'll be a mile away, AND have an extra pair of shoes!

[Campion]

I'm not sure if these are family or Yorkshire sayings but here goes. 

 

Where there's a will there's a way, and where there's a will there's a relative. 

 

You must think I'm going up on the down train. (When someone's trying to pull the wool over my eyes).  

 

Don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar. 

 

She's not backwards in coming forwards. (She's assertive and confident). 

 

Better late than never, better never late. 

 

A place for everything and everything in its place.