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a few quotations I (really) like

 

it is the theory which decides what we can observe.
Albert Einstein

If you are note prepared to be wrong,
you'll never come up with anything that is original
Sir Ken Robinson, "Do School Kill Creativity?", TED Lecture, 2007

Solo la luce che uno accende a se stesso, risplende in seguito anche per gli altri.
Arthur Schopenhauer, da “Parerga e Paralipomena"

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer

This box is full of stuff that almost killed me. 
And what about this one? Where's this one from, Will?
It's my wedding ring. Like I said, stuff that almost killed me.
From the "Hurt Locker" script

Nonne nobis visum est nullam naturam esse quae non in his tribus terminis intelligitur subsistere, qui a Graecis ut saepe diximus, “ousia, dinamia, energia” appellantur: hoc est essentia, virtus, operatio.
Scoto Eriugena

Robots are not bright enough to be called stupid

Photography and art are all about discovering what excites you, and showing it to us as you see it.
Ken Rockwell

I thought of the future but I spoke of the past.
Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany)

L'assurdo ci sfida per spingerci a essere fieri di noi
Francesco Guccini

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell   

I am what I have around
Theoria,
Wallace Stevens

Algernon. The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean — so Bunbury died.
Lady Bracknell. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.
from
"The Importance of being Ernest", Oscar Wilde

Just like everything in life,
if something isn't adding to the composition,
it's taking away.
Ken Rockwell

Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?
Lane. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.
from
"The Importance of being Ernest", Oscar Wilde

Almost nothing fundamental has been developed by large corporations, or even by people working at their day jobs. All large organizations do is bring other people's brilliant ideas to market, but the brilliant ideas always start in the imagination of a single man.

Almost everything earth-shaking has been developed by individuals working in their garage on their own time.
Ken Rockwell

Lane. I believe it IS a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person
from
"The Importance of being Ernest", Oscar Wilde

Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die übrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eins trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht einmal zu sehen vermögen.
Arthur Schopenahuer, Welt als Wille und Vorstellung II, 3

E' il giorno in cui ti copri che cominci ad avere freddo

La differenza tra chi è innamorato e chi non lo è, è che l'innamorato mente a se stesso; per questo motivo è più convincente