Dear Blog,
Here is my Day 4 entry for the 30 Day Blog Challenge.
Day 05 — Your Favorite Quote
Limiting me to one quote? Grr, this challenge is hard to follow.
"There's no guarantee in the realm of romance." - Morgan Witt
From one of my best friends. It's nice to remember that from time to time.
Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
"The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein has dozens, if not hundreds, of quotations to his name on a variety of topics.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." -Oscar Wilde
If I have any enemies, this is what I do.
"Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -Carl Sagan
It's a simple truth that I have to keep in mind.
"If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us." -Anon
I have to learn. Plain and simple.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
This is another aim in my life, to have an educated mind that can balance opposing views in my head.
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -Ellen Parr
A quote I now take to heart. If I hear myself utter "I'm bored," I tell myself that it's impossible. There is too much to experience to ever be bored.
The following quotes pertain to gaining wisdom, something I hope to have in the future.
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson (I wish I could show this to anyone who ever wonders why I don't talk much in meetings or serious discussions)
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato (I also want to show this when I choose to speak after being silent)
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." - Socrates
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."- Lao Tzu
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (how else can I be a poet without this trait?)
Until next time!
-Daniel Golden
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