Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

Woody Allen

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes, ca. 200 BC

It is humans that make truth great, not truth that makes humans great.

Confucius

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Galileo Galilei

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Galileo Galilei

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Richard Feynman

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Richard Feynman

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

James Randi

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

James Randi

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

John Maxwell

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John Maxwell

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Death is nothing to fear. It's either nonexistence, or else it's a simple migration from one place to another — from here to there. And if it's a migration, then what have we to fear? We'll find ourselves in the company of people like Homer and Hesiod, and what wouldn't we give to meet them?

Socrates

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

Bertolt Brecht

The most dangerous phrase in the language is “We've always done it this way”.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Robin Williams

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly

Lola May

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.

Piet Hein

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Steve Jobs

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

Barack Obama

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Honoré de Balzac