Your Philosophical One Liners

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
Socrates

 

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
Zhuangzi

 

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
Plato

 

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
Albert Einstein

 

Marx: "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

 

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov

 

This too shall pass

 

Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

There are Three types of learners:
Those who learn by seeing
Those who learn by hearing
Then there are those who have to pee on the electric fence to learn their lesson.

 

"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."
David Crockett

 

So true,I have put up the Davey Crocket story, "Not Yours To Give" many times.