12 favorite quotes

[bearfinch]

Being somewhat bored today I decided to list a few of my favorite, brief, quotes. I'll make no pretension about having read or studied most of these authors, except for a bit Bertrand Russell and quite a bit of Margaret Laurence. In fact I snatched many of these from the game Civilization IV. Still, I like them, how so much meaning can be packed

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[quuf]

"A lie may take you far, but it will never take you home again."

- Yiddish proverb

[bearfinch]

Very true.

[champdaddy]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

[bearfinch]

True enough.

Oh, I originally learned the Xenocrates one from one of your posts....

[detailbear]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. --Carl Sagan

[bearfinch]

I (reservedly) like that quote, except for the fact that too many people use it to justify things like aliens, sasquatch, etc.

[clayboy65]

wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
right it right even if no one is doing it.

[bearfinch]

But who decides or knows right and wrong?

[perkk]

I like these. Thank you for sharing them. Here are some that I've collected over time.