I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

Mike Singletary

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Lena Dunham

Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Konrad Lorenz

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

Plato

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Gustave Courbet

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Frank Birch

They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on

Terry Pratchett

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

J. K. Rowling

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Max Planck

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce