Recently, I was reading my profile on facebook just to see how much of it is public. Was actually trying to configure the settings when I started editing the quotes section. After completing the quotes section I thought I might actually write a post about it.
So here are the few ones I have liked the most.My top five picks.
“Cogito, Ergo sum”
Coined by Rene Descartes, the greek philosopher,when translated from Latin to English it simply means: “I think, therefore I am”. The best one that I have ever heard. I like most of the quotes for their hidden, implied meanings and this one had them all.Philosophical, scientific, spiritual etc. Just think about it once and it will make itself clearer. Think again and it will become obscure again.
“Oh lord, my GOD, Is there no help for the widow’s son?”
Quoted by Hiram Abif when he was about to be slained. With uplifted hands came his ultimate cry of pain, anguish.pleading someone to help. The freemasons have used this as a plain distress call.When this quote is said by any mason, it simply means “Help me” and is a call that is supposed to be understood by other fellow masons only. I read about this quote in Dan Brown’s novel “The lost symbol”.
“Stay hungry,Stay Foolish!”
I know that there is a book of that name too. But this quote was present on the backpage of final edition ‘The whole earth catalog’. It was created by Steward Brand and is regarded by many as an amazing collection of good stuff in the yesteryears when internet was not even established. I heard this first in Steve Jobs convocation ceremony speech at Stanford and has inspired me since then. I just wish this is true for me throughout my life. Yes. “Stay hungry, stay foolish”
“At first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win”
Quoted by Mahatma Gandhi, I guess it is highly significant in anyone’s life. The power of convincing others is an important gift but it requires a lot of patience at times to make others convinced. This quote is written at RED-HAT’s pune office in the entrance hallway. I find it really apt in open source communities, where convincing others that you have got something good is an hard task than doing it. One of my friends actually summed the essence a lot better: ‘No matter how many obstacles that come the way, the ridicule that might come the way, if you are on the right track sticking to the task bears fruit’
“Nothing Is Impossible if you try but eventually if you still feel so then maybe you have not tried hard enough”
I dont quite know who quoted this or if it was quoted anyways. I don’t even remember how I heard of it the first time. But its a nice thought.Maybe a cliche but it speaks for itself.
All these years I have really liked these quotes.They have been inspiring, historical, mysterious etc. I am fond of thinking about all of them.
Cheers
X
Sandy
