Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

Bertrand Russell

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Marilyn Manson

Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.

Jim Trombetta

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love... There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

Edith Sitwell

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

David Hockney