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- With luck and resolution and good guidance.. the human mind can survive not only poverty, nut even wealth.
- Gilbert Highet
- Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Hilarious, 2011
- All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!"
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Hilarious, 2011
- If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think of yourself.
- James Stephens
- Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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