Quotes

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. - Epicurus

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. - Epicurus

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent. - Thomas Hobbes

Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them. - Jerry Falwell

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. - Umberto Eco

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We now have a new generation of people coming up that have put their principals and their idealism on lay-away and are a few payments behind. - Michael D. Perry

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work ... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. - Benjamin Franklin

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. - Carl Gustav Jung

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon

Life is like a tree. Every branch ends the same, with its limbs outstretched, and its leaves opened up, trying to touch the light it will never reach. - Michael D. Perry

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. - René Descartes

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. - Frank Herbert

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene

No matter how much you talk to your plant, if you don't water it, it's going to die. - Mike Perry

The backbone of joy is adventure. - Benjamin Lanard

Things do come to those who wait, but only things left over from those that hustle. - Abraham Lincoln

Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair. - Judith Stearn

Idealism is like innocence. The more you live, the more you lose. However, you can do a lot more with idealism than you can innocence. Innocence is a state of mind; idealism is a state of being. - Mike Perry

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. - John Lennon

Nothing is worth more than this day. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. - William James

Anybody who knows everything should be told a thing or two. - Franklin P. Jones

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicolas Charles Trublet

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Less is more - more or less. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You're not as young as you used to be, but you're not as old as you're going to be - so watch it! - Irish proverb

We think in generalities; we live in detail. - Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth. - Joseph Conrad

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

Don't be angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, because you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas Kempis

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. - Eldridge Cleaver

We all know it isn't human to be perfect, and too many of us take advantage of it. - unknown