The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
—Thomas Carlyle
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
—Edward Teller
I think that’s how I would describe love right now if someone asked me. You’re so connected to someone else that the world and all its cliques and challenges and traumas and mysteries can’t hurt you that much.
—Audrey Hart in The Dig
I have many things I want out of life, but I’m practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.
—Jude Deveraux in Counterfeit Lady
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
—Swami Sivananda
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
—Don Marquis
Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
—Ralph W. Sockman
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
—David Brin
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best — and therefore never scrutinize or question.
—Stephen Jay Gould
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.
—Dave Kellett
Everyone wants to fall in love. But I think more people are in love with the theory of love. If you’re looking in from the outside, it looks so beautiful. On the inside, it’s scary because it can take over your life. It’s the strongest emotion but also the darkest. It can put you on a high for days, but it can wrap an anchor around your feet and drown you in less than a minute.
—Calia Read in Calia Read
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
—Germaine Greer
Time will teach more than all our thoughts.
—Benjamin Disraeli
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
From the rise, he looks out over his place. This is it. This is all there is in the world — it contains everything there is to know or possess, yet everywhere people are knocking their brains out trying to find something different, something better. His kids all scattered, looking for it. Everyone always wants a way out of something like this, but what he has here is the main thing there is — just the way things grow and die, the way the sun comes up and goes down every day. These are the facts of life. They are so simple, they are almost impossible to grasp.
—Bobbie Ann Mason