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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.

Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey, in Wisdom and Ignorance

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant, in Happiness and Misery

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet, in Art and Literature

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill, in Law and Politics

The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

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

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death

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

Daniel Boorstin, in Success and Failure

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, in Success and Failure