A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.

Proverb

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Miguel de Unamuno

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man

Paulo Coelho

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Amber Heard

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

Vin Scully

I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pass. No man who has chosen well and wisely will ever credit it to fate; the only real fatalist is a man on his way down the pipe. There is no solace in fatalism.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Dickens

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Joseph Brodsky

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

George Carlin