AAPI Heritage Month

Bogdan A. Sava > Bogdan A.'s Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 32
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    3734 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Naomi Klein
    “Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
    ― Naomi Klein
    tags: democracy, politics, voting
    186 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Barack Obama
    “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: activism, commitment, politics
    1049 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
    14017 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
    7776 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Naomi Klein
    “You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”
    ― Naomi Klein
    tags: america, freedom, image, impressions, peace, war
    143 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
    2717 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor, writing
    2369 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
    tags: normalcy
    1862 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
    2614 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
    1840 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
    1576 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Isaac Asimov
    “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    957 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Isaac Asimov
    “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor
    930 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Isaac Asimov
    “Tell me why the stars do shine,
    Tell me why the ivy twines,
    Tell me what makes skies so blue,
    And I'll tell you why I love you.

    Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
    Tropisms make the ivy twine,
    Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
    Testicular hormones are why I love you. ”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    683 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Isaac Asimov
    “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    617 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Bobby Fischer
    “I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.”
    ― Bobby Fischer
    36 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Barack Obama
    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: change, inspirational
    3307 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Barack Obama
    “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work
    2681 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
    9011 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4638 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
    3876 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    42128 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
    11469 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
    8421 likes

    • like
  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
    8374 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
    5417 likes

    • like
  • #28
    “Homo Sapiens have not yet failed. Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands.”
    ― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
    32 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Ken Follett
    “Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”
    ― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
    tags: faith
    381 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Ken Follett
    “The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”
    ― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
    302 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Bogdan A.’s Quotes

democracy
politics
voting
activism
commitment
life
science
wisdom
humor
inspirational
philosophy
america
freedom
image
impressions
peace
war
elite
elitism
elitist
voter
writing
normalcy
assumptions
close-mindedness
intelligence
isaac-asimov
knowledge
open-mind
open-mindedness
open-minds
opinions
receptivity
science-of-mind
violence
education
learning
lifelong-learning
self-education
change
determination
helping-others
hope
initiative
just-do-it
proactivity
service
volunteerism
work
answers
man
questions
thinking
apathy
hate
indifference
love
opposite
poetry
misattributed-einstein
confidence
eccentricity
faith