Self-Deprecating Sayings

377 sayings found from 377 authors

If God has no sense of humor, I don't want to go to Heaven.

— Martin Luther Undated
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Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BC
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I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own.

— Nikola Tesla Late 19th - early 20th century (approximate)
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

— Thomas Edison Late 19th - early 20th century (approximate)
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I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

— Louis Pasteur Late 19th century (approximate)
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I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

— Michael Faraday 19th century (approximate, quoted in 2010 book)
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I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

— Gregor Mendel Approx. 1860s-1880s
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I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

— Erwin Schrodinger 1952
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In the proof stage, I nearly cut that last sentence of the book. Had I done so, the sales might have been halved.

— Stephen Hawking Approx. 1988 (publication year of A Brief History of Time)
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You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

— Richard Feynman Unknown
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Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?

— Guglielmo Marconi Early 20th century
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Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1945
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I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

— Enrico Fermi c. 1940s-1950s
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Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

— Linus Pauling c. 1930s (as recalled later)
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

— Alexander the Great 323 BCE
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I don't love you, not at all; on the contrary I detest you—you're a naughty, gawky, foolish slut.

— Napoleon Bonaparte 1796
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On one side I am called upon to remember the parrot, on the other to remember the dog. For my own part I should not pine much if both were forgot.

— George Washington Late 18th century (approximate)
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I am proud to be maladjusted and wish all men of goodwill would be maladjusted until the good society is realized.

— Martin Luther King Jr. March 17, 1966
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There are no hopeless situations, there are desperate people. I have never lost hope.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Undated
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I have concluded – maybe a little late – that speeches must be short.

— Fidel Castro 2000
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