April 22

April 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ~ Anne Frank
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~ Immanuel Kant (born 22 April 1724)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ~ Vladimir Nabokov (born 22 April 1899) {10 April O.S.}
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * It is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan (quote for Earth Day)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * The death of dogma is the birth of morality. ~ Immanuel Kant
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. … We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. ~ Wendell Berry (quote for Earth Day)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time. ~ Charles Mingus
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2016

— Added to QOTD layout as tribute to Prince after his death on 21 April 2016 —


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki for Earth Day.


 * 2021


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matter. ~ Immanuel Kant
 * 3 Kalki 21:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Her intense and pure religiousness took the form of her having equal faith in the existence of another world and in the impossibility of comprehending it in terms of earthly life. All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and the chimeras, something real ahead, just as persons endowed with an unusual persistence of diurnal cerebration are able to perceive in their deepest sleep, somewhere beyond the throes of an entangled and inept nightmare, the ordered reality of the waking hour. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do God and Devil combine to form a live dog? ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress. ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 3 because the regression of science is the death of mankind. Zarbon 22:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:19, 22 April 2019 (UTC) 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC) but trimmed of the initial "And". with a lean toward 4, but ONLY if extended for context to read:

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so. ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 3 because the entire world is full of people who have sheer hatred for one another and that is moreso a fact than anything else. The very prevention of this hatred will result in even worse a fate for everyone...maintaining that prevention can end up being deadlier than the actual act which will send one to "hell". Zarbon 22:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I need physics more than friends. ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 3 because friends are plenty, but physics will allow for much more. Zarbon 22:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 4 for the full version or just trimmed to "Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds" in reference to the old scripture and the usage of the atomic bomb as a dual dynamic. But 4 either way. Zarbon 03:04, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC) for full version only.

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 3 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

One cannot live in society and be free from society. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 3 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 3 because for better or for worse, history repeats itself. Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The state does not function as desired. The car does not obey. A man is at the wheel and he seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is an episode in a man's. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Men do not change; they unmask themselves. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple. ~ Charles Mingus
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ~ Charles Mingus
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 07:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 07:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:01, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

More solar energy falls on Earth in one hour than all the energy our civilization consumes in an entire year. If we could harness a tiny fraction of the available solar and wind power, we could supply all our energy needs forever, and without adding any carbon to the atmosphere. ~ In commemoration of Earth Day, from the twelfth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:41, 7 October 2016 (UTC) To celebrate Earth Day (April 22nd), I propose discussing the solution (renewable energy) instead of simply complaining about the problem (impending global warming disaster).

Here is a longer version of the same quote, with a pep talk in the second paragraph:

"More solar energy falls on Earth in one hour than all the energy our civilization consumes in an entire year. If we could harness a tiny fraction of the available solar and wind power, we could supply all our energy needs forever, and without adding any carbon to the atmosphere.

"It's not too late. There's a future worth fighting for. How do I know? Every one of us comes from a long line of survivors. Our species is nothing if not adaptive. It was only because our ancestors learned to think long-term, and act accordingly, that we're here at all. We've had our backs to the wall before, and we came through to scale new heights."
 * Pithy Francoln (talk) 13:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC) I am indifferent as to whether the longer or shorter version of the above quote could be used. However, I do think that the challenge of global warming and adoption of renewable energy as a response to that challenge is of vital importance for our world community. I would love to see either one displayed as a quote of the day.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 22 April 2017 (UTC) 3 Kalki 21:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Keep your eye on the man, not the dog. (Comparing the gradual curve of Neil deGrasse Tyson's path along a beach to climate and the erratic path of a dog Tyson is holding on a leash to  weather.) ~ In commemoration of Earth Day, from the twelfth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 22:36, 11 October 2016 (UTC) This is such a great illustration, but any more talk just explaining the problem is less important now than discussing the solution (renewable energy).

By burning coal, oil and gas, our civilization is exhaling carbon dioxide much faster than Earth can absorb it. So, CO2 is building up in the atmosphere. The planet is heating up.. . . It's a pretty tight case. Our fingerprints are all over this one. ~ In commemoration of Earth Day, from the twelfth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 23:14, 11 October 2016 (UTC) This is also a great quote, but nowhere in there is a mention of renewable energy (the solution we must focus on to ensure long-term celebration of Earth Day for decades to come).


 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 20:41, 8 October 2020 (UTC)


 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 20:41, 8 October 2020 (UTC)