The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Havelock Ellis

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Will Rogers

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Henry Ward Beecher

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Alan Alda

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Terry Pratchett

All government, of course, is against liberty.

H. L. Mencken

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

Dan Heisman

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

Noah Porter