Do not believe in what you've heard;
do not believe in traditions because they have
been handed down for many generations;
do not believe in anything because it is rumoured
and spoken of by many;
do not believe merely because the written statements
of some old sage are produced;
do not believe in conjectures;
do not believe in that as truth to which you have
become attached by habit;
do not believe merely on the authority of your
teachers and elders.
After observation and analysis, when it agrees
with reason and is conducive to the good and
benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-- Buddha
The universe is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Eden Philpotts
If you are doing anything the same today in the same way you did it a year ago, you are probably doing it wrong.
--Voltaire
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Try to know everything of something and something of everything.
--Lord Broughman
The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Winston Churchill
Woe be unto him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one. Language, literature and history, physics, math and philosophy--subjects which seem the most remote from one another--are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.
--Jules Michelet
No man in this world is useless who lightens the burden of someone else.
--Charles Dickens
Knowledge sharpens our vision. Skill makes us effective. But it is a consciousness of ignorance that can keep us alive. It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding and the curiousity about that which lies beyond that are essential to progress.
--John Pierce
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
Of all the liars in the world, the worst are our own fears.
--Rudyard Kipling
Some dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
--Unknown
History becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
--H.G. Wells
People are disturbed, not by events, but by their view of those events.
--Epictetus
It is the time you have wasted on your rose that makes your rose so important.
--Antoine de Saint Exupery
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
--Anatole France
