I love good quotes. There’s a novel in every sentence. Some of them are explosive. I collect them from many sources, though I see many of them on my homepage, which is set for The Quotations Page. Here are my favorite quotes that I’ve collected over the past few months:
-If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: ‘I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.’ When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD)
-Life is a series of things you’re not quite ready for.
Rob Hopkins, of the Post Carbon Institute
-An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 1988)
-The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 – 2006)
-The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal . . . If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Malcolm X Speaks, p.93
-As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire
-The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery (1871 – 1945), 1895
-Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
-Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996)
-It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
-About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings (1818 – 1885)
-What if the price of machines that think is people who don’t?
George Dyson
-I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
–Christopher Marlowe, English playwright
-Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
-The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Friedrich Hegel
-Parting is all we need to know of hell.
Emily Dickinson
-There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
Voltaire (1694 – 1778), Dialogue, XIV, “Le Chapon et la Poularde” (1766)
-He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
-Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
-There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier (1855 – 1950)
-Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George (1839 – 1897)
