Vulcan proverbs

Proverbs by the fictional race Vulcans from Star Trek.
 * Live long and prosper.
 * Leonard Nimoy, "Amok Time", (1967)
 * Said on many occasions, normally accompanied by salute. Standard reply: Peace and long life.


 * Nothing that is is unimportant.
 * From the novel Strangers From The Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno


 * Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you.
 * Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 1 Episode 4, "Strange New World"


 * Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
 * Concept introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"


 * Your mind to my mind... your thoughts to my thoughts...
 * Chant used during Vulcan mind melds; a similar expression was used in The X-Men # 3 (January 1964) by Professor Charles Francis Xavier. Xavier said, "My thoughts are YOUR thoughts, Blob! My will is YOUR will." (pg. 24)


 * Only Nixon can go to China.
 * Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country


 * May your journey be free of incident.
 * Saavik, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


 * In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace.
 * Tuvok, Star Trek Voyager: "Once Upon a Time"


 * Nothing unreal exists.
 * Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


 * Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide.
 * T'Plana-Hath, Matron of Vulcan Philosophy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


 * After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
 * Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Amok Time"


 * We are here to serve.


 * The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
 * Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan


 * Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
 * An echo of Proverbs 9.10: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
 * Perhaps influenced by George Illes (1852 - 1942): "Doubt is the beginning, not the end of Wisdom."
 * Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country


 * A Vulcan never bluffs.
 * Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Doomsday Machine"


 * One man can summon the future.
 * T'Pol, Star Trek: Enterprise, "United"


 * One man cannot summon the future.
 * The inverse of the Vulcan proverb, quoted by the Mirror Universe Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Mirror Mirror"


 * Kaiidth. ("What is, is.")
 * From the novel Dwellers in the Crucible by Margaret Wander Bonanno
 * Logic dictates that to race a prized stallion one must first break it.
 * Spock, Star Trek (2009)