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Some Good Quotes: Wisdom from geniuses other than me

Organized in semi-logical order.

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know"
-- Pascal, Pensees, 1670

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

"Dreaming is the singing of the mind."
--Sean Lennon

"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
-- André Dubus, Broken Vessels, 1991

"I am a deeply superficial person."
-- Andy Warhol

"They always talk who never think."
- Matthew Prior

"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
--Laurence J. Peter

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
--Laurence J. Peter

"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
--Laurence J. Peter

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
-- Henry Miller

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
- Oscar Levant

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-Woody Allen

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it
ceases to be serious when people laugh."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself."
- Winston Churchill

"Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to
accept what I can't and the incapacity to tell the difference."
--Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes)

"True enlightenment lies on the verge of insanity"
-Aristotle

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
- Nikola Tesla

"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the
same figures to draw different conclusions."
- Evan Esar

"It's not pre-marital sex if you're not getting married."

"The Pillsbury doughboy is way too happy considering he
has no genitals."

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."
-- T.S. Eliot

"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"
--Clark Adams

The scientist yearns to find and eventually know the truth;
The religious man wants the truth to fit his preconceived mold. So, as a result...
The scientist alters his perception to conform to the facts;
The religious man tries to change the facts to conform to his beliefs.
--(no source)

"Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers."
-- The Roadside Pulpit

"Midgets have little in common."

"If you meet your master today, kill him. Be your own master."
-- Marilyn Manson

"Without being self aggrandizing. I've seen the little tidal waves that
I've caused in the music industry, and how people are becoming more
evolved in their images. And there are a lot of new Marilyn
Mansonesque people, but I don't get mad at those things.
It's like there's one real Santa Claus, but there's a
lot of fake ones at the mall."
-- Marilyn Manson

"The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing."
-- (Unknown)

"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
--Laurence J. Peter

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein

"The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It is twice as large as it
needs to be."

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you
wake up, and doesn't stop until you get to school."

"Life is like a shit sandwich; the more bread you have, the less shit you
have to eat."

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that
is struck with the difference between what things are and what they
ought to be."
--William Hazlitt

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning,
that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
-- Frank Sinatra

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is
the removal of censorships."
--George Bernard Shaw

"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
Laurence J. Peter

"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."
-- Paula Poundstone

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

"I am Time: And I have destroyed countless beings, even the gods who
preside over this universe. I am the consumer and you are our food...This
relationship is not based on mutual likes or dislikes."
-- Yoga Vasishta

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
-- George Bernard Shaw

"For many, faith is a suitable substitute for knowledge,
as death is for a difficult life."

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous
as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
--Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo

"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot
and he creates Gods by the dozen."

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god
than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible
gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
--Stephen Roberts

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
--Laurence J. Peter

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