We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw

As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions

Elizabeth Fee

There is no gambling like politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Robert Kiyosaki

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Henry David Thoreau

If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a satellite beam. Even the dark areas would glow with radar and commercial radio waves. It could be the nervous system of a great beast.

Terry Pratchett

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

Michael Haneke

The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

William Jennings Bryan, Cross of