I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished
one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is
killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his
courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind.
- George Bernard Shaw

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
- Socrates

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is
because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature
and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
- Max Planck

When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's
an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things
mixed up with the essential truth.
- Aldous Huxley

And in the end it's not the years in your life
that count. It is the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is joy in work. There is no
happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- Gerald R. Ford

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now
and then to hang a question mark on the
things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell

The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Butler

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
- Jules Renard

Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
- WH Auden

"Freedom lies in being bold."
- Robert Frost

"What you get free costs too much."
- Jean Anouilh

"Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I'd rather know some of the questions than all of the answers."
- James Thurber

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
- Voltaire

We are what we pretend to be, so we
must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007 ), Mother Night

The one thing more difficult than following
a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected
questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in
a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the
prejudices of their education.’
- John Locke

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.’
- Mahfouz Naguib

People have enough ideas. The real question is
“Which ideas are you going to use?”.’
- Michael Ray

‘Art is really people asking the eternal
question, “What is it all about?”’
- Gene Roddenberry

"What people think of as the moment of discovery
is really the discovery of the question.’
- Jonas Salk

We would not let ourselves be burned to death
for our opinions: we are not sure enough of
them for that. But perhaps for the right to
have our opinions and to change them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

All in all, punishment hardens and renders
people more insensible; it concentrates; it
increases the feeling of estrangement; it
strengthens the power of resistance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

He who despises himself nevertheless
esteems himself as a self-despiser.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Great intellects are skeptical.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven
which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all that is written, I love only what
a person has written with his own blood.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that God in creating man
somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

The human brain starts working the moment you are born
and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye
of the beholder,' and I say that the most
liberating thing about beauty is realizing
that you are the beholder. This empowers us
to find beauty in places where others have
not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
- Salma Hayek

‘The ability to ask the right question is more
than half the battle of finding the answer.’
- Thomas J. Watson

‘The "silly question" is the first intimation
of some totally new development.’
- Alfred North Whitehead

"Good questions outrank easy answers.’
- Paul Samuelson

"No question is so difficult to answer
as that to which the answer is obvious.’
- George Bernard Shaw

‘There are no foolish questions, and no man has
become a fool until he stops asking questions.’
- Charles P. Steinmetz

For most men life is a search for the proper manila
envelope in which to get themselves filed.
- Clifton Fadiman

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
- Basil King

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

Home computers are being called upon to perform
many new functions, including the consumption of
homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson