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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

 Nicholas Murray Butler, in  Science and Religion and  Success and Failure

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

 Will Durrant, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

 Stephen Vincent Benét, in  Life and Death

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

 Robert Byrne, in  Vice and Virtue

To "be" means to be related.

 Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

 Christopher Morley, in  Science and Religion

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in  Life and Death

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.

 Benjamin Franklin, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

It is impossible to love and be wise.

 Francis Bacon, in  Love and Hate

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

 Stephen Hawking, in  Science and Religion

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

 Louis Armstrong, in  Vice and Virtue

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

 Benjamin Disraeli, in  Science and Religion

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

 Mary Howitt, in  Happiness and Misery

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

 Cicero, in  War and Peace

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

 Molly Ivins, in  Law and Politics

To generalize is to be an idiot.

 William Blake, in  Science and Religion

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

 Robert Orben, in  Law and Politics

It gets late early out there.

 Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in  Work and Recreation

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

 W. C. Fields, in  Altruism and Cynicism