Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
Aldous HuxleyTo raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert EinsteinThe only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordI 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 GalileiAn Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard ShawA man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore RooseveltWhat one fool can understand, another can.
Richard P. FeynmanI make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher HitchensFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch SpinozaWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinSome people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Margaret AtwoodI had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya AngelouBy the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin DisraeliWhen we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher HitchensEverything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon BonaparteThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesTo discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantThe eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil GibranIllusion is the first of all pleasures.
VoltaireReason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl MarxReligion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl MarxKnowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CummingsEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas SowellThe revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonUpon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Abraham LincolnEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerA lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul SartreWhy are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
Stephen HawkingFolks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper LeeAptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus AureliusThere is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya AngelouWe misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.
Robert KiyosakiBeauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
Karl LagerfeldThere is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich NietzscheBut we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
Alan WattsFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThere is no love of life without despair of life.
Albert CamusI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LewisThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovI let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
Kurt VonnegutReligion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher HitchensThe ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale CarnegieOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaPart of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice WalkerThe greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise PascalMost damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Alice WalkerYou cannot step into the same river twice.
HeraclitusI grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas CarlyleTo be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
Christopher HitchensThe hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert EinsteinWhen we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.
Stephen HawkingIf history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard ShawI am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
Terry PratchettIt is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise PascalIf you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.
Alice Walker