One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A.A. Milne

Don't just do something, sit there!

Sylvia Boorstein

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Stephen Colbert

Tutto quello che vedete, lo devo agli spaghetti.

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti”

Sophia Loren

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through.

David Bowie, “Changes”

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny…'

Isaac Asimov

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Michael Levine

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

Lawrence Krauss

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Albert Einstein

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you're not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes.

@debihope

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

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

Isaac Asimov

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Yogi Berra

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

People who have no fear of heights lack imagination.

Stevenvh

We must believe in free will. We have no choice.

Isaac B. Singer

We are none of us infallible — not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

Cela est bien dit, répondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.

Voltaire, “Candide”

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Artemus Ward (often attributed to Mark Twain)

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Voltaire

You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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