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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. I am not young enough to know everything.






2. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






3. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






4. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






5. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






6. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






7. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






8. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






9. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






10. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






11. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






12. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






13. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






14. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






15. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






16. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






17. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






18. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






19. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






20. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






21. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






22. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






23. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






24. Time makes more converts than reason.






25. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






26. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






27. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






28. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






29. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






30. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






31. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






32. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






33. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






34. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






35. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






36. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






37. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






38. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






39. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






40. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






41. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






42. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






43. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






44. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






45. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






46. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






47. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






48. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






49. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






50. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.