scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.

Albert Einstein

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Charles A. Garfield

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Dennis Brown

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.

Baron Wessenberg

One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment.

Virginia Woolf

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

William Hague

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

The Germans really conceive of their country as always under war conditions in this respect. No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth and, to the German mind, they are always belligerent. The Germans take the view that war is only intensified peace.

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

Jodie Foster

"Who are the true philosophers you have in mind?" he asked. "Sightseers of the truth" I answered. "That must be right, but what exactly does it mean?" he asked.

Plato