Quotes wanted. Dead or alive.

[booyalab]

I'm helping FC with the design elements of the forum. I have some ideas already but I need help. Specifically, I want all of your favorite quotes that you think describe the INTP mentallity (humorous, thought-provoking, characteristic of the type, etc) They can be from a famous person but not necessarily. Don't be humble, if even you have said something that would qualify, let me know. Include the quoted person's name as you would want everyone to see it.

[Johnny]

Here's my favorite and one of my own...but you've got to know that Jung was INTP to really enjoy it:


Want to claim you've got the real deal in a Jung forum? Good luck getting anyone's attention here long enough to help you drag your cross up the hill...

[johnnyz.86]

i love symbolism in this meaningless world.

sometimes i feel that the world is too beautiful for me...

i have some more quotes, some that i really liked, that may just be lost forever in the confusion and unreliability of life.

and by beautiful i mean innocent, obliviousness, etc., of the people.

[/pretentiousness]

[Dengarm]

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr

[Arioch]

Hell is other people.

[Arcael]

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr = Win :D

[Birdsnest]

B)

[s]

Here's my favorite and one of my own...but you've got to know that Jung was INTP to really enjoy it:


Want to claim you've got the real deal in a Jung forum? Good luck getting anyone's attention here long enough to help you drag your cross up the hill...

That is good stuff, Johnny. :D

[PsiKik]

I believe it's bad luck to be superstitious - ME

[Johnny]

Here's my favorite and one of my own...but you've got to know that Jung was INTP to really enjoy it:


Want to claim you've got the real deal in a Jung forum? Good luck getting anyone's attention here long enough to help you drag your cross up the hill...

That is good stuff, Johnny. :D

Thank you s. Laughter is good medicine...

[Dengarm]

"If I've learned anything from my study of literature, it is that there is nothing more precious than the love of a Scottish playwright, cowboy poet, or shy cartoonist."

-Sean Carman

[booyalab]

You guys aren't specifying names enough. If it's clear to me that it's yours, but you dont give your real name, I'll put your forum nick. If you don't put anything, like Dengarm, although it seems likely that's his/hers, I might not include any name with it. Also, know that I'll probably not choose any signatures that are PRESENTLY being used, unless I'm hard-pressed for quotes. It seems a little redundant.

[Johnny]

I don't care that you use my forum handle for my quote should you choose to use it.

[Dunearhp]

Frank Herberts Dune was mentioned in one of the other threads. It lead me to find this page of quotes the other day.

http://www.caveofbirds.com/dune/duneq.html

How about this one.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
--"The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

[booyalab]

I don't care that you use my forum handle for my quote should you choose to use it.

I will find some way to use it, it rules. Although I can't identify with it since everything I say is great and everyone knows it.

[jknight]

http://goodquotes.com/ has a lot i used to search the site for long periods because i wanted to be able to quote them and surprise people with my awsome intelect :rofl: lol

[ohnoaninfp]

Das ist schwiesse! ;)

[Arcades]

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[giftedmadness@hotmail.com]

Here is mine tonight from a chat room. I saved it.

"I'm an INTP - tons of ideas but no follow through, and no social skills so I can network and get my ideas put to use."

You have permission to reword it and make it more concise.


GM

[Crazy]

From Calvin and Hobbes

"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain amount of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die"

[Dengarm]

The only significant enemy of the race of man is man. That said, it wouldn't hurt to avoid crocodiles.

No idea who said it.

[xavierd]

'My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.'
- Lousia May Alcott

I don't know who she is/was, the quote was in my Ethics book, but I think it also defines an INTP pretty well.

Also the quote in my sig is pretty good.

[MacGuffin]

'My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.'
- Lousia May Alcott

I don't know who she is/was, the quote was in my Ethics book, but I think it also defines an INTP pretty well.

She wrote Little Women!

[xavierd]

Thanks MacGuffin. I haven't read that book, is it worth reading?

[MacGuffin]

Thanks MacGuffin. I haven't read that book, is it worth reading?

Never read it. Saw the movie version. Teenage girls seem to love it.

[Arcael]

"She Floats Like a Butterfly and Stings Like When I Pee."
-Peter Griffith

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."
~Samuel McChord Crothers

"Failure puts you a step closer to success"
-Arcael

[Witticism]

"I've been talking to dead rabbits and feeding bloody walls. I've done horrifying things with salad tongs. It's really eaten into my social life."
-Jhonen Vasquez.

"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
-Nick Horny

"We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
-Oscar Wilde

"I think it's a probably a good thing to be considered stable, with a capacity for madness."
-Wayne Coyne

"We hope your rules and your wisdom choke you."
-Radiohead

"I'm not afraid of computers, they're defenceless."
-Thom Yorke.

[Witticism]

*Nick Hornby. BY.
Oh God.

[booyalab]

*Nick Hornby. BY.
Oh God.

the edit button is a wonderful invention ;)

[Witticism]

I'm used to deadjournal, where you can't edit comments and so your SHAME is up for all to see.

[booyalab]

I'm used to deadjournal, where you can't edit comments and so your SHAME is up for all to see.

Of course, I've accidentally quoted myself instead of editing myself so it's not the best idea to have the 'quote' button right by the 'edit' button. I try to catch all of my mistakes but I'm sure there are some horrible ones somewhere on this forum.

[file cabinet]

From the bullet thread... I bring these from xavierd.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-Albert Einstein

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion."
-Philip Wylie

"The nake truth is always better than the best-dressed lie."
-Ann Landers

[last_caress]

A few from Einstein:

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.


Then there's my contribution wherein I quote someone quoting someone else who quote Emersons quote about quoting.

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ... (R. Emerson)" -- Quoted from a fortune cookie program (whose author claims ... "I hate quotations."

[ohnoaninfp]

Jesus loves you, Everyone else thinks you're an asshole. :D

[Sackanaka]

"Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" "Mu." (Mu=the whole essence of nothing)
-from a Zen koan

"Is your mind a mallet which bluntly strikes a wide surface or a chisel which cuts deep and precisely?" "If you learn to use both, you will become a great sculptor." - my first koan with comment/answer.

[Witticism]

"It's not me, it's you."

[Niflheimian]

Hmm..."we actually voted for John Kerry before we voted against him" ?