Art is a lie that reveals the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Pablo Picasso
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid a real labor of thinking.
— Thomas Edison
The book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics. If we cannot understand that language, we will be doomed to wander in vain through a dark labyrinth.
— Galileo Galilei
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
— Voltaire
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
— Bertand Russel
The purpose of education is to learn to think for yourself.
— Dead Poets Society
— Derek Bok
Irony is the only weapon of defenseless.— Sergei Dovlatov
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
— George Orwell
Hostility in social creatures is almost universal against individuals that behave in an abnormal manner.
— Niko Tinbergen, A study of social behavior of birds, 1961.
— Howard Bloom, The Lucifer Principle
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
— Guenter Grass
Evil prevails when good people keep silent.
— Unknown
Who knows only his own generation remain always a child.
— Cicero
None are as blind as those who refuse to see.
— Unknown
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
— Buddha
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa
Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward.
They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
— Goethe
If you are going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
— Vince Lombardi
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
— Woodrow Wilson
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
— Teddy Roosevelt
The man who starts out going nowhere generally gets there.
— Dale Carnegie
There is nothing more humiliating than to have to defend the truth.
— Alain Finkelkraut
And so, as night is falling
How bitterly I rue
The words I have not spoken,
The things I have not do!
— M.J. Savage
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man with courage makes a majority.
— Andrew Jackson
The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.
— Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's Propaganda Minister)
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
— Victor Frankl
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
— Winston Churchill
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
— Arthur Koestler
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
— Marcus Aurelius
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
— Thomas Jefferson
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
— Albert Einstein
To stay in place you have to run hard, and to get anywhere you have to run even harder.
— Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
The past is the best predictor of the future.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
— Socrates
Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
— Albert Einstein
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
— Marshall McLuhan
— Albert Einstein
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.— Alfred North Whitehead
When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.— George Santayana
If you start with the wrong assumptions, no matter how logical your reasoning is, you will end up with the wrong conclusion.
— unknown
The worst thing a son-of-a-bitch can do is turn you into a son-of-a-bitch.
— Frank Oppenheimer
— Mark Twain
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
— Napoleon Bonnapart
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
— Souza
— Richard Feynman
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.— Richard Feynman
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.— Elie Wiesel
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.— Voltaire
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.— Richard Feynman