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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

Category
People

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Oscar Wilde

War is not about who's right, but who's left.

Bertrand Russell

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

Matthew Dicks

Social awkwardness is not a crime.

Idir Aitsahalia

My room is the safest place my body has. My mind doesn’t really have a safe place.

Anna Whateley

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Paul Collins

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Dr. Seuss

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Alan Turing

There is no cure for being human.

Cheri Rauser

I know of nobody who is purely autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had some autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin.

Jerry Newport

Even for parents of children who are not on the spectrum, there is no such thing as a normal child.

Violet Stevens

[So-called] mild autism doesn't mean one experiences autism mildly ... It means YOU experience their autism mildly. You may not know how hard they’ve had to work to get to the level they are.

Adam Walton

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be.

Temple Grandin

Animals make us human.

Temple Grandin

There’s a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.

Temple Grandin

The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person's social life.

Temple Grandin

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

Yogi Berra

Chacun est roi en sa maison

Everybody is king in their home

French proverb

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.

Angela Morrison

What, after all, is normality? Given that there is an enormous range of social behavior with many degrees of adaptation and success or failure in the normal population, where does normality end and abnormality begin? Should one instead talk about normal and abnormal shading into each other? To put it another way, should one look at Asperger’s syndrome as a normal personality variant?

Uta Frith

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you're honest with them, then you're an asshole.

George Carlin

Ik zou haast zeggen: dit is liefde, maar het is te waar om mooi te zijn.

Herman De Coninck

Women are like elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn’t want to own one.

W.C. Fields