# Most Genuinely Profound Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963 "2014-06-29T21:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/61 "2014-07-01T16:18:27Z")
_Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto._ (I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.) - Terence ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/62 "2014-07-01T17:07:04Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > Every frigging day the old bugger would get up before dawn and go for a jog, followed by an ocean swim (this is in Melbourne) and umpteen hundred pushups and situps. Died recently in his 80’s from brain cancer as a secondary from melanoma. Which just goes as evidence to another great quote: > [@](#): > > Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/63 "2014-07-01T17:21:16Z")
> [@Shamozzle](#): > > Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. > > -Denis Diderot My new email sig. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/64 "2014-07-01T19:04:07Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > EVERY MORNING IN AFRICA A GAZELLE WAKES UP. IT KNOWS IT MUST RUN FASTER THAN THE FASTEST LION OR IT WILL BE KILLED. Strictly speaking, the gazelle also need only run faster than the slowest gazelle. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/65 "2014-07-01T19:53:40Z")
Bertrand Russell: > [@](#): > > The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response to a question about the most astounding fact he knows is pretty wonderful: [here it is, in video form](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU). Its marriage of science and beauty is, I think, among the better approaches to life. That’s great, but his answer is only the second most astounding fact. The most astounding fact is that there IS anything at all. Ref the Whitman lines posted by **Drunky Smurf** above! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/66 "2014-07-01T20:46:47Z")
I see I’m not the only one who’s posting their sig: “We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance” - [John Archibald Wheeler](http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/82/08G77/) (1911 - 2008, RIP) ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/67 "2014-07-01T23:19:08Z")
“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies." - Lester B. Pearson “Reality is what you can get away with.” - Robert Anton Wilson ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/68 "2014-07-02T05:24:32Z")
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moths nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal." “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” “It is better to give than to receive.” - all said by Jesus Christ ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/69 "2014-07-02T15:37:31Z")
“Manhood is the defeat of childhood narcissism.” – David Gilmore “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ― C.S. Lewis “And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” ― C.S. Lewis ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/70 "2014-07-02T20:55:58Z")
_Luck is the residue of design._ – Branch Rickey ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/71 "2014-07-02T21:03:16Z")
_It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it._ - Aristotle ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/72 "2014-07-02T23:59:48Z")
The most terrifying sentence ever uttered in the English language is, “Hello! I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” - Ronald Reagan ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/73 "2014-07-03T02:12:27Z")
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” Richard P. Feynman “Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (6 June 1986), Appendix F - Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle” Sadly, we keep forgetting this. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/74 "2014-07-03T07:47:54Z")
What’s worse than a man who can’t dream, is a man who can only dream. – Don’t know, possibly Ayn Rand ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/75 "2014-07-03T16:51:47Z")
Everyone wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die. ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/76 "2014-07-04T20:51:02Z")
I first heard of it as the Army General’s Law (and anon), but it’s by A.H. Weiler “Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself” ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/77 "2014-08-14T01:54:35Z")
Beavis (from _Beavis and Butt-head)_, of all people, had this profound comment about Vanilla Ice: "You know, they’re always, like, putting this guy down and making fun of him and saying he sucks and stuff… But, you know, he really does suck. And this is one of those times where everybody’s right." ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/78 "2014-08-14T03:09:06Z")
“Men don’t pay women to sleep with them, they pay them to go away afterwards”. ~multiple attributions ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/79 "2014-08-14T07:35:52Z")
Many years ago I saw a quote attributed to Abe Lincoln that ran something like this: “Half of the world’s problems would disappear if people would just leave each other alone.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/80 "2014-08-14T08:33:52Z")
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