The Quote File

Bertrand Russell

2009-02-08T08:51:00.000-08:00

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

H. H. Williams

2009-02-06T08:27:00.000-08:00

"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."

George Orwell

2009-01-30T08:12:00.000-08:00

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

Isaac Asimov

2009-01-11T08:51:00.000-08:00

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Sir William Drummond

2009-01-10T08:43:00.001-08:00

"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."

Saki

2008-11-28T07:44:00.000-08:00

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." [Quotes of the Day]

Fred Hoyle

2008-11-28T07:43:00.001-08:00

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."
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Sir Francis Bacon

2008-09-13T12:29:00.001-07:00

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." [Quotes of the Day]

Thomas H. Huxley

2008-09-01T08:55:00.000-07:00

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." [Quotes of the Day]

Kurt Vonnegut

2008-08-19T08:01:00.001-07:00

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." [Quotes of the Day]

George Carlin

2008-08-17T09:11:00.001-07:00

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" [Quotes of the Day]

Samuel Johnson

2008-08-02T09:44:00.001-07:00

"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good." [Quotes of the Day]

Arlo Guthrie

2008-07-24T08:09:00.000-07:00

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." [Quotes of the Day]

Walter Lippmann

2008-07-18T15:15:00.001-07:00

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." [Quotes of the Day]

Jean Cocteau

2008-07-15T08:56:00.000-07:00

"Art is science made clear." [Quotes of the Day]

Will Durant

2008-03-20T07:23:00.001-07:00

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." [Quotes of the Day]

Laurence J. Peter

2008-03-20T07:22:00.000-07:00

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." [Quotes of the Day]

Cato the Elder

2008-03-14T07:59:00.002-07:00

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." [Quotes of the Day]

Andre Gide

2008-03-14T07:59:00.001-07:00

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." [Quotes of the Day]

Robert Jackson

2008-03-13T08:01:00.001-07:00

"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." [Quotes of the Day]

John F. Kennedy

2008-02-20T21:21:00.001-08:00

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." [Quotes of the Day]

John Maynard Keynes

2008-02-10T07:58:00.001-08:00

"I do not know which makes a man more conservative? to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past." [Quotes of the Day]

C. P. Snow

2008-02-07T19:19:00.000-08:00

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." [Quotes of the Day]

Sir Francis Bacon

2008-02-07T19:18:00.000-08:00

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." [Quotes of the Day]

Ben Hecht

2008-01-18T08:18:00.000-08:00

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." [Quotes of the Day]