More of my favorite quotes

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)

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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