January 8

January 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. ~ Stephen Hawking (born 8 January 1942)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. ~ Baltasar Gracián (born 8 January 1601)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ Gerry Spence
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others. ~ Gerry Spence
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. ~ Gerry Spence
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki, as a significant statement, prior to recent historical events as he engaged in his role in the official counting of the electoral votes by the US Congress.


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * We are defined by how we use our power. ~ Gerry Spence
 * used 4 August 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. ~ Karl Brandt (born January 8)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:19, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: 1947 Trial Documents
 * 1 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward ZERO; there is very little chance I see of so profoundly STUPID a statement ever being an appropriate choice for QOTD.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image. ~ Elvis Presley
 * 3 Zarbon 06:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Zarbon 06:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, though I consider it a somewhat flawed and prejudicial statement — truth can escape any prison — and any form of confinement — in ways that seem incredible to the dull and dimwitted, and which seem impossible to the oblivious.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 and leaning toward a 4. Zarbon 06:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Argument is the affirmation of our being. It is the principal instrument of human intercourse. Without argument the species would perish. As a subtle suggestion, it is the means by which we aid another. As a warning, it steers us from danger. As exposition, it teaches. As an expression of creativity, it is the gift of ourselves. As a protest, it struggles for justice. As a reasoned dialogue, it resolves disputes. As an assertion of self, it engenders respect. As an entreaty of love, it expresses our devotion. As a plea, it generates mercy. As charismatic oration it moves multitudes and changes history. We must argue — to help, to warn, to lead, to love, to create, to learn, to enjoy justice — to be. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Not believing others implies that you yourself are deceitful. The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Readiness is the mother of luck. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Do something well, and that is quickly enough. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist. ~ A. J. Muste
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way. ~ A. J. Muste
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ~ Wilkie Collins, Armadale (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them. ~ Terry Brooks, Armageddon's Children (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much. ~ Terry Brooks, The Elf Queen Of Shannara
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore. ~ Terry Brooks, The Elf Queen Of Shannara
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two. ~ Terry Brooks, Bearers of the Black Staff
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from... For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. ~ Terry Brooks, A Knight of the Word
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves. ~ Terry Brooks, The Tangle Box
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Many of us suspect that all of this - all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe - is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes; a multiverse. Universe upon universe; worlds without end. ~ In commemoration of the 8 January 1942 birth of Stephen Hawking (a notable proponent of the multiverse idea), from the first episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 19:55, 11 October 2016 (UTC) This is THE quote that made me want to watch all of the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episodes. After hearing this for the first time my mind just melted and I was left happily speechless. I'd love to see it as a quote of the day.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 7 January 2017 (UTC) I do like the quote, and though the connection to the date is somewhat tenuous, I could rank it 3 in the future, but perhaps expanded slightly for context.