He therefore who wishes to rejoice without doubt in regard to the truths underlying phenomenon must know how to devote himself to experiment.
      Roger Bacon

The covers of this book are too far apart.
      Ambrose Bierce

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There is many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
      Flannery O'Connor

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
      Napolean Bonaparte

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
      Abraham Lincoln

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
      H.R. Trevor-Roper

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a polical animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization, he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.
      Hugh MacLennan

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
      Paul Valery

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
      Albert Einstein

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
      Dolly Parton

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
      Ralph Waldo Emerson

A liberal education is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of his own, opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant... He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class; he knows when to speak and when to be silent.
      John Henry Newman

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
      Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
      John W. Raper

It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes. When I brood over these marvelous pleasures I enjoyed, I would be tempted to offer God a prayer of thanks if I knew he could hear me. Praised may he be for not creating me a cotton merchant, a vaudevillian, or a wit.
      Gustav Flaubert

If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, it would be a pretty good idea.

Go away. I'm all right.
      Last words of H.G. Wells

Crude, immoral, vulgar, and senseless.
      Tolstoy, on Shakespeare

Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
      Thomas H. Huxley

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
      Bertrand Russell

People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do.

An ancient sentence about liberal education says it is the education worthy of a free man, and the converse is equally ancient: the free man is the one who is worthy of a liberal education. Both sentences remain true, the only difficulty being to know how many men are capable of freedom.
      Mark Van Doren

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
      Abraham Lincoln

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
      William Jennings Bryan

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
      Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

It is better to know some of the questions then all of the answers.
      James Thurber

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