Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Barbara Ehrenreich

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

Source Unknown

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Jon Meacham

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

John L. Mcclenahan

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Thomas Huxley

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

L. Ron Hubbard