"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. " - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. " - Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. " - Galileo Galilei

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. " - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. " - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

"Logic is in the eye of the logician. " - Gloria Steinem

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. " - Yogi Berra

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. " - Mae West (1892-1980)

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. " - Tom Clancy

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)