In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

History is the devil's scripture.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

William Coperthwaite

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Ernest Renan

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Jerry L. Lewis

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Conrad Black

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Aristotle

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Eric Hoffer

When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

Denzel Washington