History Quotes / TheSpock

->''"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”''

->''(The team members are photographing their facial expressions for an experiment.)''\\

'''Grant:''' Unfortunately, because these are all the same ''(holds up Jamie's photos)'', we're gonna have to throw them out.\\

->''When a difficult or worrying decision has to be reached, as soon as all the data are available, give the matter your best thought and make your decision; having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.''
-->-- '''Bertrand Russell'''

->''Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.''

-->-- Flavor text of '''Sphinx's Revelation''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

-->-- '''Rei Ayanami''', ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'', ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/advice-and-trust-nge.8768/page-23#post-2260137 chapter 4]]''

-->-- ''FanFic/Team8'', [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2731239/2/Team-8 "Chapter 2: A Painfully Early Morning"]]

->''Perhaps I appear blase to the human tragedy that surrounds us. [[BrutalHonesty I am, largely]]. I believe one should focus on their strong subjects. [[AmbiguousDisorder Empathy was never truly one of mine]]. Thusly, I must protect [[WizardingSchool the Academy]] and [[ChildMage its occupants]] the only way I can appreciate: analytically.''
-->--'''Headmaster Hayden Montag,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->''I do not understand humans that are motivated by love. A person is born, lives for a number of years and interacts with up to eight billion people. What proof is there of something they can't even define?''
-->--'''Bedman''', ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd''

->''Clarity of thought before rashness of action.''
-->--'''Shockwave''', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''

->Perhaps I appear blase to the human tragedy that surrounds us. [[BrutalHonesty I am, largely]]. I believe one should focus on their strong subjects. [[AmbiguousDisorder Empathy was never truly one of mine]]. Thusly, I must protect [[WizardingSchool the Academy]] and [[ChildMage its occupants]] the only way I can appreciate: analytically.

->I do not understand humans that are motivated by love. A person is born, lives for a number of years and interacts with up to eight billion people. What proof is there of something they can't even define?

-->-- '''UsefulNotes/{{Aristotle}}''', ''Book I'', 1355.b1

->Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order.
-->-- Flavor text of '''Sphinx's Revelation''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->''“When a difficult or worrying decision has to be reached, as soon as all the data are available, give the matter your best thought and make your decision; having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/{{Aristotle}}''', ''Book I'', 1355.b1

-->--Creator/HPLovecraft

-->--'''Creator/ChristopherHitchens'''

-->'''--Series/{{Mythbusters}}'''

-->--'''Bertrand Russell'''

-->--'''Rei Ayanami''', ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'', ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/advice-and-trust-nge.8768/page-23#post-2260137 chapter 4]]''

-->--''FanFic/Team8'', [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2731239/2/Team-8 "Chapter 2: A Painfully Early Morning"]]

-->--''FanFic/Team8'', "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2731239/2/Team-8 Chapter 2: A Painfully Early Morning]]"

-->--''FanFic/Team8''

->''“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”''
-->--'''Mr. Jaggers''', ''Literature/{{Great Expectations}}''

-->--'''Mr. Jaggers''', ''{{Great Expectations}}''

-->--'''{{Aristotle}}''', ''Book I'', 1355.b1

-->--HPLovecraft

->''"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."''
-->--'''{{Aristotle}}''', ''Book I'', 1355.b1

->''"I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyze than to feel."''
-->--HPLovecraft

->''“It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times. When a difficult or worrying decision has to be reached, as soon as all the data are available, give the matter your best thought and make your decision; having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”''

->"I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyze than to feel."
-->--HPLovecraft

-->'''--{{Mythbusters}}'''

-->'''--{{Mythbusters}}'''