Carl Sagan
Mort Sahl
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jonas Salk
George Sand
Carl Sandburg
Henry Sanders
George Santayana
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jonathan Schell
Jacqueline Schiff
Arthur Schopenhauer
Robert H. Schuller
Charles Schultz
Charles M. Schwab
George Seaton
Erich Segal
A. D. Sertillanger
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Bill Shankly
Anna Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Pam Shaw
William Shedd
Michael Shermer
John Shirley
George P. Shultz
Abbe Sieyes
Beverly Sills
Jerry Simmons
William E. Simon
B. F. Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Samuel Smiles
Adam Smith
Alexander Smith
Alfred Emanuel Smith
Christopher Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Sydney Smith
Joseph Sobran
Socrates
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Nancy Spain
Baruch de Spinoza
Walter Parker Stacy
Josef Stalin
Freya Stark
Lonny Starr
John Steinbeck
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James Fitzjames Stephen
James Stephens
Earl Gary Stevens
Adlai Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Publius Syrus
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If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining it to them.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
The rebel is careful to preserve the abuses from which he suffers so that he can go on rebelling against them.
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
I am condemned to be free.
Hell is other people.
These bombs were built as weapons for war, yet their significance greatly transcends war, and all its causes and outcomes. They were grew out of history, yet they threaten to end history. They were built by men, yet they threaten to annihilate man. They are a pit into which the whole world can fall. The nemesis of all human intentions, actions, and hopes.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
One finds one's way only by taking it.
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
Some people think that football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, "Women have never produced anything of value to the world." I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
There is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
The liar's punishment is not that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance, but disappear when you get up close to them.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it hitherto been in the political order? Nothing. What does it ask? To be something.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
One of the most important lessons to learn in life is how to teach yourself.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Love is but the recognition of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
It's easy to say you will die for a friend, but it's hard to find one worth dying for.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money, only for wanting to keep your own money.
The ancient oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.
Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
Interpretation is the revenge of intellect upon art.
Only a fool would make the bed every day.
The true aim of government is liberty.
The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or to restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.
Men have gone to war and cut each other's throat because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one gets surprised.
No matter what happens, there's always somebody who know it would.
People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Humanity is only I writ large, and love for Humanity generally means zeal for MY notions as to what men should be and how they should live.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
The hardest thing about a political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
The mark of a good action is that it seems inevitable in retrospect.
Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Life is a gamble at terrible odds--if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.
Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
