February 11

February 11 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. ~ Leó Szilárd (born 11 February 1898)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. ~ René Descartes (died 11 February 1650)
 * proposed by Inhuman14


 * 2007
 * Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? ~ Leó Szilárd (born 11 February 1898)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * In Common Sense Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again. ~ Thomas Alva Edison (born 11 February 1847)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this "minority?" It is difficult to say at this point, for, at the present time their influence on governmental decisions is not perceptible. ~ Leó Szilárd
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I was sixteen years old when the first World War broke out, and I lived at that time in Hungary. From reading the newspapers in Hungary, it would have appeared that, whatever Austria and Germany did was right and whatever England, France, Russia, or America did was wrong. A good case could be made out for this general thesis, in almost every single instance. It would have been difficult for me to prove, in any single instance, that the newspapers were wrong, but somehow, it seemed to me unlikely that the two nations located in the center of Europe should be invariably right, and that all the other nations should be invariably wrong. History, I reasoned, would hardly operate in such a peculiar fashion, and it didn't take long until I began to hold views which were diametrically opposed to those held by the majority of my schoolmates. ~ Leó Szilárd (born February 11, 1898)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * I'm looking for a market for wisdom. ~ Leó Szilárd
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2016


 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister


 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019
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 * 2020


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


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 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of the current starting celebrations of the Chinese Year of the Dragon.


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~ Thomas Edison (Birth date)
 * proposed by Liquidice5
 * 1. I don't dislike this (anonymously submitted) quote; but it appears on the Edison page as one variant among several in the Unsourced section. For this reason I wouldn't feel any confidence in selecting it. - InvisibleSun 17:16, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 23:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 : ranking this a bit higher, as sourcing for it is a bit stronger now, but there are still enough variants to lack confidence in the accuracy of any.
 * 2. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 23:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because this may be true, since only through trial and tribulation do people discover things. It also emphasizes the human will to go on, very nice quote. Zarbon 22:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. ~ Thomas Edison
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~ Thomas Edison
 * 0 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 20:11, 4 February 2011 (UTC) Though I had a strong preference to use this, I cannot locate any source prior to a 1985 work which cites an 1890 Harper's Magazine — and I can find no sign of such in Google book searches, nor anything prior to 1985. 4 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC) 3 Kalki 23:29, 8 February 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 although Edison may be somewhat right, savagery still exists in human impulses and perhaps, always will. - Zarbon 05:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most. ~ Leó Szilárd
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:05, 11 February 2011 (UTC)