Quotable Quotes

"The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov

"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will." - Pythagoras (570 - 495 BC)

"If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?" - Will Ferrell

"Mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it never laughs." - Charlie Chaplin

"Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news." - Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1972

"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech." - Ugandan dictator Field Marshal Idi Amin

"I was never religious in the theological sense. I never outgrew my conversion to atheist at 13." - Steven Pinker

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." - Richard P. Feynman

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions -- to define, classify, control, and regulate people." - Michel Foucault

"Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school." - Sir Winston Churchill

"He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived." - Ancient Chinese proverb

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing." - Richard P. Feynman

"If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people." - Christopher Walken

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle

"What one fool can do, another can." – Silvanus P. Thompson

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?" - Sam Harris