Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

Sarah Silverman

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Thomas Kempis

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Aesop

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

David Sarnoff

I enjoy learning technical details.

Ken Follett

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Jacques Ellul

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Orson Welles