All great truths begin as blasphemies.
• George Bernard Shaw
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
• Sir Francis Bacon
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
• Abraham Lincoln
Life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once.
• Miquel De Cervantes
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
• Michel de Montaigne
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
• Plato
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
• Benjamin Franklin
If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.
• Plato
I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
• Walt Disney
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
• Robert Burns
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
• Greek proverb
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
• Marcus Aurelius
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
• Robert Frost
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
• Martin Luther King Jr.
Going to war without the French is like going duck hunting without your accordian.
• General Norman Scwartzkopf
Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power.
• Salman Rushdie
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
• Carl Jung
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
Atheism isn't a religion, because atheism does not require faith. It takes no faith at all to not believe in a god. It just takes a lack of evidence.
• Edward Strange
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
• Charles Dickens
Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
• Gandhi
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
• Ashley Montague
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
• B. F. Skinner
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
• Hungarian proverb
As the old proverb says 'Like readily consorts with like'.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
