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QI article about a quip misattributed to Terry Pratchett has been updated with a 1905 precursor citation Quip Origin: In Ancient Times Cats Were Worshipped As Gods; They Have Not Forgotten This quoteinvestigator.com/2024/08/11/cat…
@SchmidhuberAI Warren Buffett's brilliant comment about gold: It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or some place. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. quoteinvestigator.com/2013/05/25/bur…
Hellen Keller presented a remarkable description of the tumultuous changes to her inner life: Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/01/no-…
A science fiction author presented a radical opinion about machine intelligence when he said the following. Who was it? We should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/29/ste…
@QuoteResearch Assigning that mawkish drivel to Shakespeare is an insult, not just to Shakespeare, but to everyone with a brain.
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Is the advice above really from William Shakespeare or motivational author William Arthur Ward? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/26/spe…
For ’twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. ’Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Did a famous actress and singer from the Golden Age of Hollywood write the lines above? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/23/lip…
In physics, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes Was physicist Max Planck given this discouraging advice when he was a student in the 1870s? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/20/phy…
The following is credited to a famous comedian and concert pianist. Who? Laughter is the shortest distance between two people quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/17/lau…
Love this quote! Will QI solve the mystery of its origin?
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. What is the provenance of the saying above: Rabindranath Tagore? Rabbinic Saying? Arabic Proverb? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/13/chi…
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. What is the provenance of the saying above: Rabindranath Tagore? Rabbinic Saying? Arabic Proverb? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/13/chi…
Note: Praise when things go right.
Nobody notices when things go right Who formulated the adage above and gave a voice to beleaguered workers everywhere: M. Zimmerman? Paul Dickson? Allan L. Otten? Bob Garing? Futurama? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/09/not…
Nobody notices when things go right Who formulated the adage above and gave a voice to beleaguered workers everywhere: M. Zimmerman? Paul Dickson? Allan L. Otten? Bob Garing? Futurama? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/09/not…
8 years later we have an answer! Neither Fouche nor Talleyrand.
Your request from way back on August 3, 2018, inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article: It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/06/cri… @PlanMaestro
The QI article has been updated with an 1807 citation. Now, Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe is the most likely creator of the saying: It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/06/cri…
It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder Who originated the remark above: Talleyrand? Joseph Fouché? Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe? Napoleon Bonaparte? Germaine de Staël? Emmanuel Comte de Las Cases? Walter Scott? Ralph Waldo Emerson? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/06/cri…
Your request from way back on August 3, 2018, inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article: It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/06/cri… @PlanMaestro
Which actor said the following? What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/02/her…
Was the following said by German theoretical physicist Max Planck, U.S. self-help author Wayne Dyer, or QI while inebriated? Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/30/cha…
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