Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 22, 2016
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary  
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
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H. Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)  
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)  
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
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W. H. Thompson  
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