Vulcan proverbs
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Proverbs by the fictional race Vulcans from Star Trek.
- Live long and prosper.
- Nothing that is is unimportant.
- From the novel Strangers From The Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno
- Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you.
- Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 1 Episode 4, "Strange New World"
- Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
- Concept introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
- Your mind to my mind... your thoughts to my thoughts...
- Chant used during Vulcan mind melds; a similar expression was used in The X-Men # 3 (January 1964) by Professor Charles Francis Xavier. Xavier said, "My thoughts are YOUR thoughts, Blob! My will is YOUR will." (pg. 24)
- May your journey be free of incident.
- In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace.
- Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide.
- T'Plana-Hath, Matron of Vulcan Philosophy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
- We are here to serve.
- The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
- Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
- An echo of Proverbs 9.10: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
- Perhaps influenced by George Illes (1852 - 1942): "Doubt is the beginning, not the end of Wisdom."
- Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- A Vulcan never bluffs.
- One man can summon the future.
- One man cannot summon the future.
- The inverse of the Vulcan proverb, quoted by the Mirror Universe Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Mirror Mirror"
- Kaiidth. ("What is, is.")
- From the novel Dwellers in the Crucible by Margaret Wander Bonanno
- Logic dictates that to race a prized stallion one must first break it.
- Spock, Star Trek (2009)
Creator | Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) | ||
Television series | Star Trek (1966–1969) · The Animated Series (1973–1974) · The Next Generation (1987–1994) · Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) · Voyager (1995–2001) · Enterprise (2001–2005) · Discovery (2017–2024) · Picard (2020–2023) · Lower Decks (2020–) · Prodigy (2021–2024) · Strange New Worlds (2022–) | ||
Feature films | The Original Series | The Motion Picture (1979) · The Wrath of Khan (1982) · The Search for Spock (1984) · The Voyage Home (1986) · The Final Frontier (1989) · The Undiscovered Country (1991) | |
The Next Generation | Generations (1994) · First Contact (1996) · Insurrection (1998) · Nemesis (2002) | ||
Reboot series | Star Trek (2009) · Into Darkness (2013) · Beyond (2016) | ||
Video games | Borg (1996) · Klingon Academy (2000) | ||
Proverbs | Klingon · Vulcan | ||
Other | Star Trek franchise · Last words in Star Trek media · Jean-Luc Picard· Phase II |