The pure and simple truth is rarely pure, and never simple. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I'm a great believer in luck; and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Heinlein (1907-1988)
After all, there is but one race - humanity. George Moore (1852-1933)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
What does not destroy me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata (c1879-1919)
The graveyards are full of indespensible men. Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Sir Issac Newton (1643-1727)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! I found it! but, thats funny... Issac Asimov (1920-1992)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who would embrace peace, and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
William Jefferson Clinton (1946-)
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God, as the Catholics and Protestants do. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (c1840-1904)
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as the father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), in a letter to John Adams dated 11 April 1823
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every on in himself calleth religion. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much , who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
Ubi dubium ibi libertas; Where there is doubt, there is freedom.
Latin Proverb
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russel
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. Shakespeare
Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert
The object of the superior man is truth. Confucious
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. William Blake
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings