There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid a real labor of thinking.

-- Thomas Edison

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

-- Voltair

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

-- Bertand Russel

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.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

-- Voltaire

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

-- Marcel Proust

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

-- Souza

Dance as though no one is watching you,

Love as if you have never been hurt before,

Sing as though no one can hear you,

Live as though haven is on earth

-- Souza

If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's only a daydream.

-- John Maxwell

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 enraging than someone exposing your faults -- and being right.

-- Thomas Friedman

There is nothing more humiliating than to have to defend the truth.

-- Alain Finkelkraut

The source of our wisdom is experience, the source of our experience is our stupidity.

-- translated from Russian.

The dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

-- Paracelsus, 16th century alchemist

There comes an hour of sadness,

The setting of the sun.

Not for sins committed,

But for things I have not done.

--unknown

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

-- Louis XVIII

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

Only the shallow know themselves.

-- Oscar Wilde

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

-- St. Francis of Assisi

Tell me I forget, teach me I remember, involve me I learn.

-- Ben Franklin

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 oldest, shortest words -- "yes' and "no" -- are those which require the most thought.

-- Pythagoras

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