“Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.”
- Jules Feiffer
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.”
- Arnold Edinborough
“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
- Albert Einstein
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
- Isaac Asimov
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
- Ursula K. Leguin
“There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil. The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us.”
- Charles Mackay
“Let’s see … If I were meta-agnostic, I’d be confused over whether I’m agnostic or not — but I’m not quite sure if I feel that way; hence I must be meta-meta-agnostic (I guess). Oh, well.”
- Douglas R. Hofstadter
“Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?”
- Woody Allen
“Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some people will ever read.”
- Unknown
“There are too many people, and too few human beings.”
- Robert Zend
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
“Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.”
- Paul Vixie
“The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.”
- P.J. O’Rourke
“Intelligence is derived from two words–inter and legere — inter meaning ‘between’ and legere meaning ‘to choose.’ An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned ‘to choose between.’ He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”
- J. Martin Klotsche
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain
“Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is — and still not caring.”
- Tom Robbins
“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. ”
- Ram Dass
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
- Roger Miller
“Blaming everybody else is great until you’ve got nobody left to blame but yourself.”
- Unknown
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
- Pablo Picasso
“When I was five years old, my mom always told me happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
- Unknown
“I don’t believe in the word ‘regret’; I believe in the phrase ‘you fucked up and now you learned from it.’”
- Unknown
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
- Audrey Hepburn
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
- Mark Twain
“Being creative makes you a weird little beast, because everything seems so bloody interesting for some strange reason.”
- Mark Andrew Webber
“Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God.”
- Roman Kroitor (This quote is the basis of ‘the Force’ as used by George Lucas)
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright