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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.-- Albert Camus
"The more I watch television, the more I wonder why I'm not already supreme ruler of Earth."-- Dogbert (Dilbert)
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.-- Elbert Hubbard
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-- Albert Einstein
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.-- Elbert Hubbard
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.-- Albert Einstein
Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.-- Albert Einstein
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.-- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.-- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.-- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.-- Albert Einstein
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.-- Elbert Hubbard
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.-- Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-- Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?-- Albert Einstein
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer `yes' without having asked any clear question.-- Albert Camus
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Albert Einstein
In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.-- Albert Camus
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.-- Elbert Hubbard
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."-- Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.-- Albert Einstein
Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.-- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.-- Albert Einstein
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."-- Robert Hummel
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend-- Albert Camus
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired-- Robert Frost
"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."-- Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.-- Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.-- Albert Einstein
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.-- Albert Einstein
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.-- Robert Bly
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.-- Robert Park
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.-- Robert Benchley
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."-- Herbert Hoover
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.-- Robert Heinlein
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together-- Herbert Prochnow
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-- Robert Frost
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."-- Albert Einstein
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."-- Robert R. Coveyou
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.-- Bertrand Russell
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.-- Albert Einstein
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-- Robert Frost
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."-- Robert Frost
The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.-- Albert Einstein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."-- Bertrand Russell
Adolescence, n: The stage between puberty and adultery.
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.-- Robert Frost
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.-- Robert A. Heinlein
As far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.-- Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.-- Bertrand Russell
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.-- Robert A. Heinlein
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."-- Frank Herbert
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.-- Robert Frost
What is wanted is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.-- Bertrand Russell
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.-- Robert Pirsig
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."-- Robert Benchley
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.-- Albert Einstein
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."-- Robert A. Heinlein
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.-- Bertrand Russell
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- that is why they invented hell."-- Bertrand Russell
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."-- Robert Graves
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear and punishment and hope of reward after death.-- Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.-- Albert Einstein
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.-- Bertrand Russell
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."-- Bertrand Russell
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-- Robert Frost
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.-- Robert Green Ingersoll
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts.-- Bertrand Russell
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.-- Bertrand Russell
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.-- Gustave Flaubert
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.-- Robert Fulghum
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)-- Robert A. Heinlein
Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."-- Umberto Eco
Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.-- Bertrand Russell
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)
"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."-- Albert Einstein
You see, the conditional modifers depend on certain variables like the day of the week, the number of players, chair positions, things like that. [...] There can't be more than a dozen or two that are pertinent.-- Robert Asprin ("Little Myth Marker")
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.-- Bertrand Russell
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.-- Robert Cringely ("InfoWorld")
"Doing what we please is not freedom, is not liberty; rather, it is the abuse of true liberty and freedom."-- Cardinal Hayes
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."-- Frank Herbert
You don't have to flaunt technical ability in order to benefit from it. If you have the capability to play a million notes, and then you play only three notes, that lends an amazing profundity to the three notes you did choose.-- Robert Fripp (paraphrased)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.-- Bertrand Russell
Dear Miss ---
I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript ... I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants ... keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. ... There is too much education altogether.-- Albert Einstein (To a student)
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony #9.-- Erwin Dietrich
All goverments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathalogical personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.-- Frank Herbert
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."-- Albert Einstein
Democracy according to the NRA: Firearms are necessary to protect individual liberties; most of all the right to own firearms.
"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason."-- Bertrand Russell
"Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism."-- Bernard J. Hibbits
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.-- Justice Robert Jackson
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."-- Edmund Burke
"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."-- Jane Siberry