Notable Quotable 324

Sep 09, 2024

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

- George Carlin

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

- Kobe Byrant

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams are fun when they are distant. The imagination loves to play with possibilities when there is no risk of failure.

But when you find yourself on the verge of action, you pause. You can feel the uncertainty of what lies ahead. Thoughts swirl. Maybe this isn’t the right time? Failure is possible now.

In that moment—in that short pause that arises when you stand face to face with your dream—is the entirety of life. What you do in that pause is the crucible that forges you. It is the dividing line between being the type of person who thinks about it or the type of person who goes for it.

When I really think about it, I want that moment to be my legacy. Not that I won or lost. Not that I looked good or looked like a fool. But that when I had something I really wanted to do, I went for it.

- James Clear

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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts, hence, grappling with hard work.

- Adrienne Rich

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

- John Milton

You dislike him and present many grounds for this dislike - but I believe only in your dislike, not in your grounds! You flatter yourself in your own eyes when you suggest to yourself and to me that what has happened through instinct is the result of a process of reasoning.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Under the sky, under the heaven, there is but one family. It just so happened that people are different.

- Bruce Lee

In fact, all that deserves to be said - and by that I mean all the words capable of nourishing the inner silence of man and of directing him towards the untranslatable mystery of his origin and of his end - has been proclaimed and repeated a thousand times over the centuries before us.

- Gustave Thibon