Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Less, but better.

Dieter Rams

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

William Westmoreland

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform.

Percy Wynham Lewis

It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings, in the name of science, of

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

We cannot define these things without obscuring them, while we speak of them with all assurance....our doubts cannot take away all the clearness, nor our own natural lights chase away all the darkness.

Blaise Pascal

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.

American Indian Proverb, Crow

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Karl Jaspers

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

Thomas Mann

Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Charles Babbage

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe