He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Henry Huxley
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings through many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
Isaiah Berlin
A man can do what he wants. But he can’t want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi Von Nagyrapolt