[EnviroEngr]

If you look for the truth outside yourself,
it gets farther and farther away.
Today, walking alone,
I meet him everywhere I step.
He is the same as me,
yet I am not him.
Only if you understand it in this way
will you merge with the way things are.

TUNG-SHAN

[EnviroEngr]

You are not thinking.
You are merely
being logical.

NIELS BOHR TO ALBERT EINSTEIN

[EnviroEngr]

Words cannot express things;
Speech does not convey the
spirit.
Swayed by words, one is lost;
Blocked by phrases, one is
bewildered.

MUMON

[Guest]

"Teenage angst has paid off well, now i'm bored and old" - Kurt Cobain

[Terran]

"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself." Timothy Leary

[EnviroEngr]

The truth is where the truth is, and it’s sometimes in the candy store.
~BOB DYLAN

[EnviroEngr]

From the moment we cease trying to swim upstream and begin to flow with the current, something changes within us. ~ARTHUR SOKOLOFF

[Leanan]

LOL! If we're quoting our fearless leader, we can't leave this one out:

"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."

and

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."

[Soft_Landing]

:D :D :D Those are great guys. This thread seems to find new life at just the right intervals.

Here's a few Bertrand Russell quote's that are probably tragi-comic in the context of this site...
- Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
- If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

and my favourite:
- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

[Terran]

Here's some quotes written by Albert Einstein.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their r elations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while."

"The search for truth is more precious than its possession."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

"When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!"

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

here's the site where there's more quotes http://www.thinkexist.com/English/Autho ... 1082_1.htm

[Josephus]

Only Earth and Sky last forever. Native American Proverb

[EnviroEngr]

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
SHUNRYU SUZUKI

[EnviroEngr]

We are all many persons.
Some of these people we know
and others we don’t
—only someone else knows them.
Some of these people we like
and some of them we don’t like. . . .
All of this is music;
it is the music of our lives
if we could only stop and listen.
Music doesn’t have any meaning;
you can’t explain it.
Eating a meal doesn’t
have any meaning, either, but
if there’s no eating there’s no life,
and if we don’t hear music
we can’t dance.
This is our practice—to eat our meals
and clean up;
to dance to the music of our lives,
each one in our own way,
and then die when it’s time.

NORMAN FISCHER

[EnviroEngr]

In these words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. ~ROBERT FROST

[EnviroEngr]

People born into this floating world
Quickly become like roadside dust:
At dawn, little children,
By sunset, white-haired and old,
with no inner understanding
They struggle without cease.
I ask the children of the universe,
Why do you bother to pass this way?

RYOKAN

[EnviroEngr]

This is the ultimate
fact: “I am here.”

SHUNRYU SUZUKI

[EnviroEngr]

Truth is a pathless land.
You cannot approach it
by any path whatsoever, by
any religion, by any sect.

KRISHNAMURTI

[EnviroEngr]

Everything you 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;
not even the suggestion of a solid. There
are no absolute continuums. There are no
surfaces. There are no straight lines.

R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

[EnviroEngr]

Value judgments are
destructive to our proper
business, which is
curiosity and awareness.

JOHN CAGE

[Guest]

"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."

Henry David Thoreau