Twuotes

When people want words to sound smarter, they attribute them to a famous dead man.

“I despise intelligence” really means: “I cannot bear my doubts.” - Albert Camus

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader*

"We are the custodians of life's meaning." - Carl Sagan

"the tax which will be paid for (education) is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles, who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance." - Thomas Jefferson born 13 April 1743 letter to George Wythe 13 August 1786

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.” - John Cage

"An ocean traveller has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water." - Arthur Eddington youtu.be/8XMl9TzdLXE

"I would rather be remembered for writing something that was discomforting or offensive, than to be forgotten for writing something bloodless and bland." - @NickCave

"The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."

"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." - unknown quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/05/dar…

"What was to come next? They did not know - and hardly cared. Their minds were numbed by the shock of peace. The past consumed their whole consciousness. The present did not exist - and the future was inconceivable." - Colonel Thomas R. Gowenlock, U.S. Army

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” - Thomas Paine (1776)

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." - Oscar Wilde

"I trust the eyes of an honest man more than I trust what 'everybody knows'."

“What if you are happy and you don’t know it?” - #overheard

“They do not own what you will become.”

"they say that life itself is just the dead on vacation." - @TomWaits #quote

"The books in your library are more important than the numbers on your balance sheet." - Bill Drenttel designobserver.com/feature/what-b…