Friedrich Nietzsche

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." [Quotes of the Day]

Dave Barry

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death." [Quotes of the Day]

Vicomte de Chateaubriand

"You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light." [Quotes of the Day]

George Bernard Shaw

"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't." [Quotes of the Day]

Daniel Webster

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." [Quotes of the Day]

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." [Quotes of the Day]

John Kenneth Galbraith

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." [Quotes of the Day]

Alfred North Whitehead

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it." [Quotes of the Day]

Edgar Allan Poe

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." [Quotes of the Day]

James Thurber

"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation." [Quotes of the Day]

Matt Frewer

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!" [Quotes of the Day]

George Bush

"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them." [Quotes of the Day]

Herman Melville

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed." [Quotes of the Day]

George Santayana

"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
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Robertson Davies

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. "
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Jeannette Rankin

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
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James F. Byrnes

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
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Elbert Hubbard

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
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Robert Frost

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
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George W. Bush

Answering his own rhetorical question, "Is our children learning?", the President says, "Childrens do learn."

Malcolm Forbes

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
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Roberta Smith

"Never underestimate the amount of resentment and hostility we harbor toward artists. It springs largely from envy. They can behave quite badly, but mainly they operate with a kind of freedom and courage that other people don’t risk or enjoy. And it can lead to wondrous things." - From a New York Times Article: Is It Art Yet? And Who Decides?

Oscar Wilde

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."
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Fran Lebowitz

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
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Eric Hoffer

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
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Adolf Hitler

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
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Bertrand Russell

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
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A. A. Milne

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste."
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Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." [Quotes of the Day]

George Santayana

"Music is essentially useless, as life is."
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Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
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Jack London

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." [Quotes of the Day]

Herbert Henry Asquith

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."
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Penn Jillette

"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision." [Quotes of the Day]

Don Marquis

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." [Quotes of the Day]

Bertrand Russell

"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." [Quotes of the Day]

W. H. Auden

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." [Quotes of the Day]

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
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Vicomte de Chateaubriand

"You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light." [Quotes of the Day]

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
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Henry David Thoreau

“The question is not what you look at but what you see."

Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
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Mahatma Gandhi

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
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Thomas Babington Macaulay

"It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it."
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Colin Fletcher

"I was gently accused of escapism during a TV interview about a book I had written on my length-of-California walk. Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back home to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains."

Author ("The Complete Walker") and outdoorsman Colin Fletcher passed away today in Monterey, California.

George Santayana

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily." [Quotes of the Day]

Artur Schnabel

"Cheap music set to noble words exposes the cheapness of the music; beautiful and profound music set to insignificant words still communicates the beauty of the music." [oboeinsight]

Hubert H. Humphrey

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." [Quotes of the Day]

Diane Feinstein

"Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it."
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George F. Will

"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." [Quotes of the Day]

Allen Ginsberg

"Fortunately, art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world, endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh." [Seen at The Nocturnes.]

Brenda Ueland

"I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."

Mark Twain

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." [Quotes of the Day]

Johann Sebastian Bach

"Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret." [oboeinsight]

Rene Descartes

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." [Quotes of the Day]

Edward Abbey

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork." [Quotes of the Day]

Voltaire

"Anything too stupid to be said is sung." [Quotes of the Day]

Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." [Quotes of the Day]

Glenn Gould

"The purpose of art is not the momentary ejection of adrenaline, but rather the lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity." [oboeinsight]