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Salvador Dali: The only difference...

Salvador Dali: The only difference...

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.

Source: Diary of...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: As long as...

J Robert Oppenheimer: As long as...

As long as men are free to ask what they must -- free to say what they think -- free to think what they will --...

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Fred Hoyle: It seems to...

Fred Hoyle: It seems to...

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of...

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Benjamin Banneker: Presumption should never...

Benjamin Banneker: Presumption should never...

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: Irrationally held truths...

Thomas Henry Huxley: Irrationally held truths...

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Source: In Isaac...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as...

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Joseph Priestley: What I have...

Joseph Priestley: What I have...

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of...

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Harold S Geneen: You cannot run...

Harold S Geneen: You cannot run...

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Source: Managing,...

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G C Lichtenberg: Actual aristocracy cannot...

G C Lichtenberg: Actual aristocracy cannot...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to...

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Pearl Buck: All things are...

Pearl Buck: All things are...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...

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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or...

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A E Housman: When I was...

A E Housman: When I was...

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
`Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart...

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William O Douglas: The right to...

William O Douglas: The right to...

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

Source:...

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Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with...

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Stephen Leacock: Writing is no...

Stephen Leacock: Writing is no...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -- it is the...

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Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...

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Christopher Lasch: The job of...

Christopher Lasch: The job of...

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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Diane Ravitch: The person who...

Diane Ravitch: The person who...

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his...

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Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for...

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