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“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“It takes a very long time to become young.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
― Mark Twain

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“It is good to be a cynic â€� it is better to be a contented cat â€� and it is best not to exist at all.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
― Mark Twain

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

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

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“El pasado es la sustancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que éste se vuelve pasado en seguida.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West