Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

O woman, perfect woman! what distractionWas meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

John Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Cecil Frank Powell

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

Jared Harris

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

George W. Bush

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.

Stephen Richards

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Sun Tzu

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

Source Unknown

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief

William Shakespeare

He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.

Robert M. Pirsig