Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 49 “ There are three sides to the question — my side, your side, and the right side.” ―  Wray Hunt Triggered by yesterday's Quote Investigator post. Related:

Quote of the Week 48 “ Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” ― Aesop

Quote of the Week 46 “ Intention is the father of invention.” ― Alan Bipe   A variation of:   “ Necessity is the mother of invention ” ―  Proverb

Quote of the Week 45 “ Inside every old person there is a young one wondering what happened.” ― Dan Sullivan   (often attributed to Terry Pratchett) Triggered by a recent Quote Investigator post.

Quote of the Week 44 “ Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. ” ―  Jeremy Bentham - An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Triggered by the citation in A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI  (pg. 43) by Max Bennett. Related: “ Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.” ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj “ Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.” ―  Ramana Maharshi

Quote of the Week 41 “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ” ―  Albert Einstein   Triggered by the citation in  A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking (English Edition) by  Jung, Min W. (2023).   Related : “ Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ― Albert Einstein  

Quote of the Week 40 “Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses. ” ― Thomas Aquinas  ( Peripatetic Axiom ) Latin: “Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu. ” Often attributed to John Locke . Lockean Axiom :  “There is no idea in the mind that cannot be traced back to some particular experience. ” Further refined by Leibniz : “Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.” ―  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Quote of the Week 39 “You can not only sell others short, you can also sell yourself short. ” ―  Norbert Hinske   ( Ohne Fußnoten. Prämissen und Folgerungen. ) Alternative translation: “You can fool not only others, but also yourself. ” “Man kann nicht nur andere, man kann auch sich selbst für dumm verkaufen. ” ―  Norbert Hinske   (Aphorismus)

Quote of the Week 38 “ Worry is like paying interest on a debt you don’t owe.” ― often misattributed to Mark Twain  Related:  Quote of the Week 9 / 2022 " Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength . " ―  Corrie ten Boom

Quote of the Week 37 “The most beautiful dreams are those unfulfilled. ” ― Alan Bipe  

Quote of the Week 35 “ You have your way. I have my way.    As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ― Attributed to  Friedrich Nietzsche While often attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche , the quote is actually a paraphrasing of a statement made by his fictional character Zarathustra in Thus Spoke Zarathustra .  „Das — ist nun mein Weg, — wo ist der eure?“ so antwortete ich Denen, welche mich „nach dem Wege“ fragten. Den Weg nämlich — den giebt es nicht! Also sprach Zarathustra. “ Du hast deinen Weg. Ich habe meinen Weg.   Den Weg, den richtigen Weg und den einzigen Weg gibt es nicht. ” ― Pseudo-Friedrich-Nietzsche-Zitat

Quote of the Week 34 “ I cannot say whether things will get better if we change;   what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.” ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg “ Ich weiss nicht, ob es besser wird, wenn es anders wird.   Aber es muss anders werden, wenn es besser werden soll. ” ―  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote of the Week 33 “ No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.” ―  attributed to   Elbert Hubbard   No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one Who crafted this quip: Elbert Hubbard? Mary Sargent Hopkins? Anonymous? https://t.co/3bT2q7GGhI pic.twitter.com/5YuLW5vdSt — Quote Investigator® (@QuoteResearch) August 6, 2025

Quote of the Week 32 “ It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.” ―   attributed to Ernest Hemingway

Quote of the Week 31 “ Talent hits a target no one else can hit.   Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ―   Arthur Schopenhauer “ Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Übrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht einmal zu sehn vermögen. ”   — Arthur Schopenhauer , Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung , Zweiter Band, Ergänzungen zum dritten Buch, Kapitel 31.

Quote of the Week 28 “ Only those who change remain true to themselves.” ― Wolf Biermann “ Nur wer sich ändert, bleibt sich  treu.” ― Wolf Biermann Cited by Wolfgang Niedecken (BAP) last week in Munich.

Quote of the Week 22 “ Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ” ― Victor  Hugo  ( Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion ) Triggered by another quote (by Jean-Claude Izzo) misattributed to  Victor  Hugo  as recently seen in Italy: “ Facing the sea, happiness is a simple idea. ” According to Gemini AI t he phrase "In front of the sea, happiness is a simple idea" is not a direct quote from Victor Hugo. It is a common sentiment often associated with the experience of being by the ocean, and while Victor Hugo was a prolific writer who often explored themes of joy and nature, this specific phrase isn't found in his published works. 

Quote of the Week 20 “ Everything you can imagine is real. ” ―  Pablo Picasso Obviously generated by AI

Quote of the Week 18 “ Detours increase local knowledge. ” ― Kurt Tucholsky As seen in Dessau:

Quote of the Week 17 “ The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.” ―  Ward Cunningham ( Cunningham's Law )