Daily Quotation

"If we wish to live in the light of reason, we must follow rules or principles; for that is what being rational is."

-Isaiah Berlin​

 

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

-René Descartes​

 

"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."

-Frank Herbert​

 

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe​

 

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

-Mark Twain​

 

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."

-Denis Diderot​

 

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

-Mahatma Gandhi​

 

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

-Confucious​

 

"Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe​

 

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

-Galbraith's Law​

 

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

-Thomas Jefferson​

 

"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."
-Bertrand Russell