The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.
~ John Dewey

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~ Dennis Roth

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy

Only stupid people don't change their minds.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali

An intellectual is a person who is knowledgable in one field but speaks out only in others.
~ Tom Wolfe

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
~ Jean de la Bruyere

The only people we can think of as normal are those we do not know very well.
~ Sigmund Freud

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein

When the leftists lacked power, they embraced free speech. Now that they have power, they don't need free speech.
~ Charles Kesler

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
~ Jorge Luis Borges

Why is it that I so much want there not to be a god?
~ Thomas Nagel

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
~ José Saramago

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
~ Frank Tyger

People are poverty-stricken whenever their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of their community. Then they cannot have what the larger community regards as the minimum necessary for decency, and they cannot wholly escape, therefore, the judgment of the larger community that they are indecent.
~ J.K. Galbraith (in "The Affluent Society")

Christian love is unconditional in the sense of accepting, respecting, and showing goodwill to people just as they are, but it is not unconcerned or undiscerning about being beneficent as distinct from mere indulgent.
~ J. Packer

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate him. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything he believes or does. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise conviction to be compassionate.
~ Rick Warren

If, at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Albert Einstein