What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnson

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

Graham Greene

Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell...

Cherise Sinclair

I hope we never lose sight of one thing: it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney Company

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

Alex Tabarrok

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Abu Bakr

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

Barbara Boxer

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Peter Ustinov

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

June Jordan

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Isaac Newton