Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Denis Diderot

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Alan Dundes

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Jon Meacham

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Thomas Hobbes

People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about Valentine's Day. Just because he doesn't give you a valentine doesn't mean he doesn't love you!

Jada Pinkett Smith

A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

Charlie Munger