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- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 25, 1787
- I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of affirmation, address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
- Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), Civilization and Ethics, Preface
- Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), My Study Windows,1899
- The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays, 1961
- Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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