"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato
"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith." Saint Francis of Assisi
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
Sir Francis Bacon
"Silence is the virtue of fools."
Sir Francis Bacon
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." Frank Zappa
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world." Frank Zappa
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." Ronald Reagan
"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." Ronald Reagan
"If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again." Ronald Reagan
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder." Ronald Reagan
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
Leonardo da Vinci
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."
i>Joan of Arc
