Bertrand Russell

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

H. H. Williams

"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."

George Orwell

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

Isaac Asimov

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Sir William Drummond

"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."

Saki

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." [Quotes of the Day]

Fred Hoyle

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."
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Sir Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." [Quotes of the Day]

Thomas H. Huxley

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." [Quotes of the Day]

Kurt Vonnegut

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." [Quotes of the Day]

George Carlin

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" [Quotes of the Day]

Samuel Johnson

"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good." [Quotes of the Day]

Arlo Guthrie

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." [Quotes of the Day]

Walter Lippmann

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." [Quotes of the Day]

Jean Cocteau

"Art is science made clear." [Quotes of the Day]

Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." [Quotes of the Day]

Laurence J. Peter

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." [Quotes of the Day]

Cato the Elder

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." [Quotes of the Day]

Andre Gide

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." [Quotes of the Day]

Robert Jackson

"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." [Quotes of the Day]