“The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.”
-Blaise Pascal

"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
-Voltaire

“Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.”

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-Albert Einstein

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi

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

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
-Sinclair Lewis

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."
Henry Stimson

“The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.”
-Dr. Robert Anthony

"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."
Stephen Vizinczey

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
-Voltaire

"The less their ability, the more their conceit."
-Ahad HaAm

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
-Frank Cane

"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
-Al Capp

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
-William G. McAdoo

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
-Gustave Flaubert

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-Sir Winston Churchill

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”
- Charles R. Swindoll

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
-Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
-Elbert Hubbard

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
-Horace Walpole

"I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned."
-Brooke McEldowney

"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."
-Brendan Francis

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
-James Thurber

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"You always pass failure on the way to success."
Mickey Rooney
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
-Confucius

"He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument."

"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."
Don Wood

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
-Donald Foster

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
-Louis D. Brandeis

"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
-Pierre Beaumarchais

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
-Benjamin Franklin