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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

 Daniel Boorstin, in  Success and Failure

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

 Christopher Morley, in  Science and Religion

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

 Frank Capra, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.

 John Paul Jones, in  War and Peace

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

 John A. Locke, in  Science and Religion

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

 Rudyard Kipling, in  Success and Failure

When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.

 Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in  Law and Politics

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

 Yogi Berra, in  Success and Failure

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

 Bellamy Brooks, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

 Daniel Defoe, in  Life and Death

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

 Hubert H. Humphrey, in  Law and Politics

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

 Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in  Vice and Virtue

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

 Werner von Braun, in  Success and Failure

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

 Abraham Lincoln, in  Vice and Virtue

Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.

 Thomas Alva Edison, in  Work and Recreation

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

 Doug Horton, in  Love and Hate

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Success and Failure

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

 Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in  War and Peace