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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucious
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
1984
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking.
Arthur C. Clarke
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
There is a homely addage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt
If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
on his development of the atom bomb
I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong.
Muhammed Ali
on escaping the Vietnam War draft
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is.
Albert Einstein
The difference between what the most and least learned people know is inexpressably trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
A person who won't think has no advantage over one who can't think.
Paul Lotus
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Most people would rather die than think; in fact they do so.
Bernard Russell
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has inteded us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.
Voltaire
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
Life is what happens to use while we're making other plans.
John Lennon
That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Unknown
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Youth is wasted on the young.
Joseph Biden
The important thing is this: to be able to sacrifice at any moment what we are for what we could become.
Chinese Proverb
No man is a complete mystery, except to himself
Marcel Proust
Morality ... is the wisdom that prevents sacrificing long-term happiness for short-term happiness.
Gerald M. Weinberg
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as the tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those that differ from us in opinion.
Elbert Hubbard
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Nicollo Machiavelli
The Prince
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Pastor Martin Niemoller
1945
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's World
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders
Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies
Friedrich Nietzsche
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.
Hanlon's razor
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
Ronald Reagan
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