Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Andrew Lo

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

Morihei Ueshiba

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Anthony Trollope

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Hal Boyle

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of Orthodoxy, True and False and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

George Bernard Shaw

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Joan Rivers

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

Scott Adams

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

Maggie Gyllenhaal