Star Trek Quotes For Out Of The Box Imagination

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” 

“Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.” 

“If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.”

“A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it.”

“Blast medicine anyway!  We’ve learned to tie into every organ in the human body but one.  The brain!  The brain is what life is all about.”

“Genius doesn’t work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can’t simply say, ‘Today I will be brilliant.”

“To boldly go where no man has gone before.”

“To all mankind — may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth.”

“Leave bigotry in your quarters; there’s no room for it on the bridge.”

“I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!” 

“Humans have a way of showing up when you least expect them.”

“If there’s nothing wrong with me, there must be something wrong with the universe!”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“It’s difficult to work in groups when you’re omnipotent.”

“Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind.”

“Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth, or by misleading the innocent.”

“One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.”

“When a child is taught … its programmed with simple instructions, and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of what it was taught, thinks independently.”

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.” — Mr. Spock

“I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity; I know nothing.” — James T. Kirk

“You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.” — Mr. Spock

“Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” — Jean-Luc Picard

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” — Mr. Spock

“Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.” — James T. Kirk

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” — Jean-Luc Picard

“It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid.”

“The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.” — James T. Kirk

“If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.” — Jean-Luc Picard

“A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it.” — Mr. Atoz

“Perhaps the man wasn’t meant for paradise. Maybe he was meant to claw, to scratch all the way.” — James T. Kirk

“Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.” — Mr. Spock

“Insults are effective only where emotion is present.” — Mr. Spock

“They used to say that if Man was meant to fly, he’d have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to.” — James T. Kirk

“Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose — and excluding that which is painful.” — Mr. Spock

“Leave bigotry in your quarters; there’s no room for it on the bridge.” — James T. Kirk

“In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.” — Mr. Spock

“Compassion: that’s the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.” — Dr. McCoy

“The intellect is not all… but its cultivation must come first, or the individual makes errors… wastes time in unprofitable pursuits.” — Flint

“Without followers, evil cannot spread.” — Mr. Spock

“Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.” — James T. Kirk

“Curious, how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.” — Mr. Spock

“One man cannot summon the future. But one man can change the present!” — Alternate Mr. Spock

“We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we’re human — and maybe that’s the word that best explains us.”

“It’s time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned.”

A lie is a very poor way to say hello.” — Edith Keeler