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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer, in Love and Hate

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson, in Altruism and Cynicism

To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

Anatole France, in Success and Failure

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Dyer, in Work and Recreation

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Life and Death

I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.

Jack Handey, in Life and Death

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

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

Daniel Boorstin, in Success and Failure

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Men and Women

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Garn, in Wisdom and Ignorance