Other Quotes
Let’s see what memorable quotes we can assemble that may be of interest to the INTJ personality. Quotes by Jung are on a separate page…
No plan survives its collision with reality. -Susan Scott
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man’s nature and of life’s potential. -Ayn Rand
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it. -Ayn Rand
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them. -Ayn Rand
The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates
When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser. -Socrates
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -C.S. Lewis
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. -Hippocrates
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. -Stephen Hawking
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. -Arthur C. Clarke
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. -Arthur C. Clarke
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. -Salvador Dali
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -Salvador Dali
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …” -Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. -Isaac Asimov
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -Douglas Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams
Don’t believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. -Douglas Adams
How can I tell that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind? -Douglas Adams
Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we’re idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. -Scott Adams
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -Albert Einstein
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. -Peter Gabriel
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. -Bob Dylan
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. -Confucius
I pledge on the altar of God undying hostility to any government restriction on the free minds of the people. -Thomas Jefferson
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. -Edward R. Murrow
Science is built with facts as a house is with stones–but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -Jules Henry Poincare
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -Robert A. Heinlein
Let’s face the obvious. Yesterday we were nerds. Today we’re the cognitive elite. Let’s conquer. -Chester G. Edwards
The fact that no one understands you doesn’t necessarily mean you’re an artist. -Kaz
It might look like I’m doing nothing, but at the cellular level I’m really quite busy. -Kaz
I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid. -Kaz
I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. -Kaz
Someday we’ll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject. -Kaz
