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.

"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)