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I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

Cicero, in War and Peace

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Science and Religion

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and 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

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

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

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.

Austin Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.

Morgan Ivy, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy, in Success and Failure

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake, in Science and Religion

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats, in Success and Failure

It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann, in Law and Politics

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

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

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure