Those - Quotes
Having too many ideas is not always a good thing. It’s too easy to move on to the next one, and the next one. If you don’t have many ideas, you have to make those you do have
work for you.
A lot of times when people make accusations like that about other people - "Oh, he can't really be doing this for principled reasons, he must have some corrupt, nefarious reason" - they're saying a lot more about themselves than they are the target of their accusations, because those people, the ones who make that accusation, they themselves never act for any reason other than corrupt reasons, so they assume that everybody else is plagued by the same disease of soullessness as they are, and so that's the assumption.
The measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy.
Humanity`s greatest advances are not in its discoveries - but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love`s tragedies.
I'm not saying it's wrong to plan for the future. I'm warning not to make today a victim of those plans.
Sometimes you have to take those first steps, take that leap of faith, and inspire God to catch you.
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience.
Love is the key. Love and family. For what are night and day, the sun, the moon, the stars without love, and those you love around you? What could be more hollow than to die alone, unloved?
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection - the comparative increase of population and wealth - of those groups that happened to follow them.