“Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. - Michael J. Gelb
Actually, I think most of us are being taken for a ride.
It may be your motto but it is not your quote. 
just so we are clear:
its from
Siddhartha Gautama
He said the same thing many different ways so on that note
Do not go by revelation;
Do not go by tradition;
Do not go by hearsay;
Do not go on the authority of sacred texts;
Do not go on the grounds of pure logic;
Do not go by a view that seems rational;
Do not go by reflecting on mere appearances;
Do not go along with a considered view because you agree with it;
Do not go along on the grounds that the person is competent;
Do not go along because “the recluse is our teacher.”
Kalamas, when you yourselves know: These things are unwholesome, these things are blameworthy; these things are censured by the wise; and when undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill, abandon them…
Kalamas, when you know for yourselves: These are wholesome; these things are not blameworthy; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness, having undertaken them, abide in them.
Kalama Sutta - Angutarra Nikaya 3.65
Just rereading a few. Actually I think he’s right, we are the key but the locks are hidden behind a veil of apathy and fear.
i think the social issues (including apathy and fear) are the locks and its up to us to find the keys to conquering them
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr Seuss
From here on BLF in the thread :
Pop/soda can aluminum
“If you find yourself in a dark room with molten aluminum… hold very still… and re-evaluate your decision-making ability.”
- Joshk
“Nil Carborundum Illegitamae.”
-Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
Was a favourite of one of my teachers.
“A genius is essentially a non-conformist.”
Max Rafferty- “Suffer Little Children”
It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
Yogi B.
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
Everywhere I go, there I am.
Give a man a fish, you”ll have one less fish.
-The “bad quotes” Safe Auto commercial
I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
I once lived with a family in the middle of nowhwere in Florida. The “dad” was quite a character and would blurt out all sorts of redneck wisdom, especially after a few beers, for example:
“If the trees had pu**s, we’d do away with women.”
“All babies are born male; they just pull the d*s off the dumb ones.”
......or as Einstein would say "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
“I much prefer ‘Dangerous’ Freedom to ‘Peaceful’ Slavery”.
- Thomas Jefferson
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”
- John V. Lindsay
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.”
- Ayn Rand
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“You’ve been given a Republic, if you can keep it”
- Benjamin Franklin
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of
”liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day
America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened”.
- Norman Thomas (U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate from 1928 to 1948)
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-
armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin, 1759
My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation” -James A. Garfield
“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
to take it all away.”
- Barry Goldwater
“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the
United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
- Samual Adams
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the
assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed one.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the
people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
- George Mason
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
- Thomas Jefferson (Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers,
334 C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have
sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any
who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
- George Washington
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone
who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it
but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The
great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might
have a gun.”
- Patrick Henry
“A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”
-Amyrlin (Character in Robert Jordan’s “A Wheel of Time”).
“A man’s got to know his limitations”———Harry Callahan
“It’s a Madhouse! a Madhouse!!”———Astronaut George Taylor
“Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
-George Carlin
Man who knows everything can learn nothing.