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- Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
- Pliny The Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
- John Sloan (1871 - 1951)
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