June 13

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Quotes of the dayfrom previous years:

2004
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ~Bertrand Russell
2005
Talent perceives differences, Genius unity. ~William Butler Yeats(born 13 June 1865)
2006
It is difficult to know yourself if you do not know others. To all Ways there are side-tracks. If you study a Way daily, and your spirit diverges, you may think you are obeying a good way, but objectively it is not the true Way. If you are following the true Way and diverge a little, this will later become a large divergence. You must realise this. ~Miyamoto Musashi(died 13 June 1645)
2007
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~William Butler Yeats~
2008
So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do. ~William Butler Yeats
2009
A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these, and yet
Be thought an idler by the noisy set
Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen
The martyrs call the world.
~William Butler Yeats~
2010
I am content to follow to its source
Every event in action or in thought;
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!
When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest.
~William Butler Yeats~
2011
All hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
~William Butler Yeats~
2012
Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of thedelusionallyinfluenced lines ofthinkingwhich had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection ofpolitically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste ofintellectualeffort.
~John Forbes Nash~
2013
Mancan embodytruthbut he cannotknowit.
~William Butler Yeats~
2014
Beplural,like theuniverse!
~Fernando Pessoa~
2015
Troublesharedis trouble halved.
~Dorothy L. Sayers~
2016
Godwills,mandreams,theworkisborn.
~Fernando Pessoa~
2017
A loftymoralityshould betolerant,for none declare itslawsbut those worn out with itswarfare,and they mustpitysinners.
~William Butler Yeats~
in
~The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats~
2018
I'mnothing,
I'll always be nothing.
I can't evenwishto be something.
Aside from that, I've gotalltheworld'sdreamsinside me.
~Fernando Pessoa~
2019
The worstsin— perhaps the only sin —passioncan commit, is to be joyless.
~Dorothy L. Sayers~
2020
Apowerfulclassbyterror,rhetoric,and organised sentimentality, may drive theirpeopletowarbutthe daydraws near when they cannot keep them there.
~William Butler Yeats~
in
~The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats~
2021
Let's besimpleandcalm,
Like thetreesand streams,
AndGodwillloveus, making us
Us,even as the trees are trees
And the streams are streams,
And will give us greenness in thespring,which is itsseason,
And a river to go to when weend...
And he'll give usnothingmore, since to give us more would make us less us.
~Fernando Pessoa~
2022
Wordsare always getting conventionalized to some secondarymeaning.It is one of theworksofpoetryto take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
~William Butler Yeats~
2023
We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines ofscienceingamesand gymnastics, intravellingby land and by water, instormsof theairand of thesea,and wherever there ismatterinmotion.
~James Clerk Maxwell~
2024
We can make ourmindsso like still water that beings gather about us that they maysee,it may be, their own images, and so live for amomentwith a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercerlifebecause of ourquiet.
~William Butler Yeats~
2025
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We’re going to make sure that everybody knows Exxon’s profits. Why don’t you tell them what Exxon’s profits were this year — this quarter? Exxon made more money than God this year. And, by the way, nothing has changed.

  • proposed byIlovemydoodle(Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk/e-mail) 23:44, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ~Dorothy L. Sayers

It’s time for us to wake up and face the truth, that we are a captive species on a prison planet, but the fact that we are so close to understanding the science of our imprisonment means that we are also just beginning to touch the key that locks the door, and if we are strong, if we defy and defeat the sinister forces that rule us now, we have a chance at last to unlock this place and do what we are able to do, that we are richly capable of doing, that those who love us—and they are out there, too—have hoped and sought that we should do from time immemorial.Whitley Strieber(date of birth)

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet. ~Ann Druyan(born June 13, 1949) a writer withCarl SaganforCosmos: A Personal Voyage(1980), and a creator, writer, director and executive producer forCosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey(2014),in an interview with theCommittee for Skeptical Inquiry.—"Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe… and Carl Sagan".Skeptical Inquirer27(6). November–December 2003.

Michael Faraday's fellow scientists... needed to see his ideas expressed in the language of modern physics - precise equations. [Then]James Clerk Maxwell...translated Faraday's experimental observations on electromagnetic fields into equations[and helped transform] human civilization from a patchwork of cities, towns and villages into an intercommunicating organism linking us at light speed to each other and to the cosmos. ~ In commemoration of the 13 June 1831 birth ofJames Clerk Maxwell,from thetenth episodeof the science documentary television seriesCosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey(2014).

  • 4Pithy Francoln(talk) 16:33, 12 October 2016 (UTC) There are three reasons this simple quote should be displayed as the Wikiquote quote of the day: (1) It describes in a very succinct way how these two geniuses helped form the modern world by making telecommunications, computer networks and electrical equipment possible, (2) It highlights how important mathematics is to both science and to the functioning of today's worldwide society, and (3) Its voice is in the form of narrative third person, so it does a better job of expressing the relationship between Faraday and Maxwell than any single quote by either of them is likely to do.
  • 1♞☤☮♌︎Kalki⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡23:42, 12 June 2017 (UTC) in the present form, but perhaps a 2 or even a 3 in a different [less clearly adapted and paraphrased] form; I am not sure of that, but it is usually a strong preference with me to use the actual original words and not paraphrased adaptations.

Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness.~Ann Druyan(born June 13, 1949) a writer withCarl SaganforCosmos: A Personal Voyage(1980), and a creator, writer, director and executive producer forCosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey(2014).

  • 2Pithy Francoln(talk) 04:01, 23 March 2017 (UTC) Combatting evolution denial is a worthy subject for a quote of the day, but unfortunately this quote is from a video clip which is basically a commercial forCosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.I'd be happy to see it on the Wikiquote main page, but I felt I needed to disclaim that it is essentially from promotional material.



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