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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and 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

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women

Even thinking is participation.

Lassi Kämäri, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe, in War and Peace

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington, in Altruism and Cynicism

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

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

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance