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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

John Burroughs, in Science and Religion

An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.

Joseph Cimino, in Altruism and Cynicism

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

David Dunham, in Work and Recreation

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

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Gilbert Highet, in Art and Literature

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

Al Capone, in War and Peace

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina, in Altruism and Cynicism

Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke, in Art and Literature

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Hubert H. Humphrey, in Law and Politics

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure