If the government won’t tell us what it knows, what about science? Well, science is supposed to stand for the investigation of the unexplained, not the explanation of the uninvestigated. —George Knapp

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. —Grace Hopper

The medium is the message. —Marshall McLuhan

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. —Confucius

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. —Alain de Botton

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. —Joseph Joubert

The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. —Bertrand Russell

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. —Carl Jung

Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. —Marshall McLuhan

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. —Arthur Schopenhauer

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. —Henry David Thoreau

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest; second by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. —Confucius

He who dares not offend cannot be honest. —Thomas Paine.

The hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve. —Paul Graham

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. —Lao Tzu

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. —William Shakespeare

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. —Gerry Spence

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be. —Albert Camus

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. —William Shakespeare

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. —Katherine Anne Porter

It's not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. —Abraham Lincoln

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. —Thomas Henry Huxley

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. —Carl Jung

You will never feel proud of your work if you find no joy within it; your best work is always joyful work. —Stevie Wonder

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. —Thucydides

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. —Aldous Huxley

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. —Tony Robbins

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. —Douglas Adams

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~ Buckminster Fuller

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. —Richard Feynman

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. ~Aldous Huxley

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. —Billy Joel

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. —James Baldwin

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe. —Neil deGrasse Tyson

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. —Isaac Asimov

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. —Marcus Aurelius

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. —George Bernard Shaw

You aren't a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. —John Wooten

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. —Seneca

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. —Henry Adams

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. —Dale Carnegie

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —William Shakespeare

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a persons own mind, than on the externals in the world. —George Washington

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. —Marie Curie

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. —Harper Lee

He who controls the weather will control the world. —Lyndon B. Johnson

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts. —Queen Elizabeth II

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. —William Shakespeare