Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Lesser known quotes of some philosophers

"Sambar tastes very different from rasagolla" - Swami Vivekananda

"Desire is the root cause of capitalism" - Henry Ford

"Truth alone triumphs. Except during an election" - Vashishta

"Those who dont learn from geography are condemned to use Google maps" - Sergey Brin

"Writing begins with the letter a, like the world begins with the Foremost Bhagavaan" - Tiruvalluvar

"You never learnt Chinese, did you, Tiruvalluvar?" - Confucius

"This goat is eating better than me" - MK Gandhi

"Should I free my slaves or go fly a kite?" - Benjamin Franklin

"Now that I have freed the slaves, should I give women the right to vote? Too soon?" - Abraham Lincoln

"I wonder if I can clean myself by walking in the rain or should I soak in a bathtub?" - Archimedes

"It was amazing. There are thousands of these college graduates from China and India, who are good at mathematics, engineering, even writing software. Most of them could also speak English." - Larry Ellison

"Even the Greeks can do mathematics" - Varahamihira

"Deadbeats of the world, unite. We need to reduce the workload of workers" - Karl Marx

"I wonder if there is an invisible leg. Or a finger" - Adam Smith

"Even when I dont think, I still am. I wonder why." - Descartes

"Anger cools down. Entropy or something" - Avvaiyaar

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Some other pearls of my wisdom

Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Some quotes I like

Politics is the art of the possible - Otto von Bismarck
Science is the art of the soluble - Peter Medawar

Guano, while no saint, performs many miracles - Alexander von Humboldt

A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing - Oscar Wilde

Self-sufficiency is just another word for poverty - Matt Ridley

Understand what a miracle a flower is - Gautama Buddha

Ordinary people admire the extra-ordinary. Extra-ordinary people admire the ordinary - Confucius

The human race is the only one that gets more prosperous, as it grows more populous - Matt Ridley
When one’s calculations disagree with planetary positions, one must revise calculations, since planet wont adjust their paths & speeds to suit your calculations - Parameshvara