Quotable Earthlings
a collection of clever remarks
Over the past few thousand years, the people of Earth have said a few things worth remembering. Here are some quotes I've collected. Some are wise; some are funny. In the best, the line between wise and funny disappears.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Chinese fortune cookie
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) James Thurber
Anais Nin
Richard Rohr Albert Einstein Marcel Proust Thomas Paine
Jonathan Kozol
Mario Andretti
Ghandi
All truths are half-truths.
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
When one remembers that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We don't think our way into a new life; we live our way into a new kind of thinking.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
