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Quotations

Miscellaneous

Er... quotations that wouldn't go anywhere else.

The source format of the quotes is as follows:
- Real person: - their name 
- Fictional characters: - character's name, book/movie of origin, if book then author
- Poem, song, or book: - poem, song, or book, author

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
- Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Francis Bacon

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Frank Capra

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
- G.K. Chesterton

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
- Confucius

No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.
- Oliver Cromwell

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
- Charles Dickens

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exists.
- Thomas Disch

If you want to kill and idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
- Charles Kettering

My interest is in the future, because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles Kettering

The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzbyski

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A.A. Milne

It is the function of creative men to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plommer

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell

Some men see things as they are and say, why, I dream things that never were and say, why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

To do two things at once is to do neither.
- Publilius Syrus

Go- not knowing where
Bring- not knowing what
The path is long, the way unknown.
- Russian Fairy Tale

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
- Yiddish proverb

A tree falls the way it leans.
- Bulgarian proverb

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
- English proverb

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb

Beware of a silent dog and still water.
- German proverb

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