" In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces." ~ Unknown ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. Education and the Social Order" ~ Bertrand Russell ♥76SharePinTweet0 SharesEducation Quotes
"Two different theories exist concerning the origin of children: the theory of Sexual reproduction, and the theory of the stork. Many people believe in the theory of sexual reproduction because they have been taught this theory at school. In reality, however, many of the world's leading scientists are in favor of the theory of the stork. If the theory of sexual reproduction is taught in schools, it must only be taught as a theory and not as the truth. Alternative theories, such as the theory of the stork, must also be taught. " ~ Unknown ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them." ~ Virginia Woolf ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others. "Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?"" ~ Bertrand Russell ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim." ~ Unknown ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument." ~ Virginia Woolf ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"" ~ Bertrand Russell ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." ~ Unknown ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." ~ Virginia Woolf ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf." ~ Bertrand Russell ♥37SharePinTweet1 SharesFather Quotes
" Love must be as much a light as it is a flame." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥27SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" [C]reative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy." ~ Unknown ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." ~ Virginia Woolf ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." ~ Bertrand Russell ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. " ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥42SharePinTweet2 SharesLife QuotesSuccess
" That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. Prejudices, 1919 " ~ H. L. Mencken ♥399SharePinTweet1 SharesLove QuotesWomen
" Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. 1854" ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥299SharePinTweet0 SharesFriendship
" Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥37SharePinTweet3 SharesLife Quotes
" I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an inidual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥30SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares