Quotes

[Turtle]

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ~ Walter Lippmann

[InfiniteNow]

"In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it."

~Joseph Badaracco

[Turtle]

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ~ Voltaire

[Turtle]

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ~ Allan Bloom

[Turtle]

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets. ~ George Bernard Shaw

[Turtle]

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. ~ Ambrose Bierce

[Turtle]

CLAIRVOYANT, n.
A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead. ~ Ambrose Bierce

[Boerseun]

"The priests of the different religious sects . . . dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live."

- THOMAS JEFFERSON

[pamela]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. " A.E.


"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination" A.E.

[Turtle]

It is a great thing to be know exactly what to do in an emergency. When in doubt whether to attack or retreat I never hesitate a moment -- I toss us a copper. ~ General Gordon Granger