Quotes Collection

Quotes are very interesting means of expression: they are capable of sum up mindsets and life experiences to invoke reflection, sadness, revolt, happiness, insights or simply amusement in just a few words. I keep a record of quotes I gathered from many places, from books and speeches to movies and games.

"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."
- Confucius

"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
- Dante Alighieri

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of awareness we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein

"No battle was ever won according to a plan, but no battle was ever won without one. Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is."
- Guindon

"It's by logic we prove. It's by intuition we discover."
- Henri Poincaré

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good that we oft may win, by fearing to attempt."
- Shakespeare

"Pain is the best teacher, but nobody wants to be his student."
- Unknown author

"Being able to find the appropriate point of view is better than a high IQ."
- Unknown

"The obsessive pursuit of usefulness ends up making life itself useless"
- Unknown author

"Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection."
- Unknown author

"Every enlightened mind believes more in the much he ignores than in the little he knows."
- Unknown author

"The lack of hope is based on what we know, which is nothing. Hope is based on what we ignore, which is everything else."
- Unknown author

"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
- Charles Colton

"A good learner knowns what mistakes are worth making, a good teacher knows how to guide the student through the mistakes that are worth making."
- Myself

Magic the Gathering

"The first blow is the most important. It often negates the need for a second."
- MTG card (Fencer's Magemark)

"Beauty is in the eye of the exploder."
- MTG card (Vandalblast)

"The blood on my hand is merely proof of my ambition."
- MTG card (Wicked Reward)

"Falling from heaven is not as painful as surviving the impact."
- MTG card (Tormented Angel)

"Some do. Some teach. The rest look it up."
- MTG card (Archivist)

"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire."
- MTG card (Sizzle)

"Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation."
- MTG card (Crude Rampart)

"Good strategists sieze opportunities. Great strategists make their own."
- MTG card (Shelter)

"Which is worse: nothing to defend, or no one to defend it?"
- MTG card (Troubled Healer)

"I don't know why people say a double-edge sword is bad. It's a sword. With two edges."
- MTG card (Manabarbs)

"With great power comes great risk of getting yourself killed."
- MTG card (Goblin Arsonist)

"Blood is holy to those whose god is war."
- MTG card (Stormblood Berserker)

"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than the enemy."
- MTG card (Mana Leak)

"Where a lesser mind sees junk, I see infinite potential."
- MTG card (Scrap Mastery)