"Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Funny Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.”

Source : Song: Ain't No Sunshine, Album: Just As I Am, 1971
“But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!”
“What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.”

Source : thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.126
“Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the human race almost trembling in the balance; for had not the geometry of conic sections already been worked out in large measure, and had their opinion that only sciences apparently useful ought to be pursued, the nineteenth century would have had none of those characters which distinguish it from the ancien rÃ©gime.”
“If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.”
“Few things are as essential as education.”
“There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.”
“Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.”

You may also like:

Douglas Adams
Writer
Erich Maria Remarque
Author
Ian Stewart
Professor
Neil Gaiman
Author
Philip Pullman
Film writer
Stephen Baxter
Author
Stephen King
Author
Terry Goodkind
Writer
Rhianna Pratchett
Writer