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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure

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

Sandra Carey, 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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination

Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

Robert Harbison, in Law and Politics

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

Krystal Ann Kraus, in Men and Women

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Happiness and Misery

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Eric Hoffer, in Love and Hate

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Irving Kristol, in Law and Politics

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse, in Life and Death

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Vice and Virtue

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

Collis P. Huntington, in Altruism and Cynicism