Favorite Quotes

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have

said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

The Buddha

"To find yourself - think for yourself."

Socrates

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because

he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,

however measured or far away."

Henry David Thoreau

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

Albert Camus

"There must come a time in one's life when he finally says,

'This is me...and the rest of the world can go to hell.'"

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity

are both uncivilized and undemocratic."

Mahatma Gandhi

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

Coco Chanel

"There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense;

for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads."

William Edelen

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

Henry David Thoreau

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers."

M. McLaughlin

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher

esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord

would suffice."

Albert Einstein

"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land,

is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

Georges Clemenceau

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing."

Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all."

George Lichtenberg

"There is no need to seek truth, only cease to cherish opinion."

Seng Ts'an, Third Zen Patriarch

"Anything capable of being believed is an image of truth."

William Blake

"Truth is in all things, even partly in error."

Jean Luc Godard

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw

"I can believe anything, provided it is incredible."

Oscar Wilde

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Lewis Carroll

"We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could."

William James

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them,

to the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke

"Man's mind is a mirror of the universe that mirrors man's mind."

Joseph Pearce

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

John Milton

"Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities;

in the expert's mind there are few."

Shunryu Suzuki

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of

thinking."

Kahlil Gibran

"In my soul rages a battle without victor.

Between faith without proof and reason without charm."

Rene Sully-Prudhomme

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

Rabindranath Tagore

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself

(I am large, I contain multitudes)."

Walt Whitman

"Logic only gives a man what he needs.

Magic gives him what he wants."

Tom Robbins

"It is far, far better to have a firm anchor in nonsense,

than to put forth on the troubled sea of thought."

John Kenneth Galbraith

"True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise,

lest fools should fail to find it wise."

Piet Hein

"It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints,

than to speak folly wisely like the deans."

G. K. Chesterton

"Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise."

Thomas Gray

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could

presume to violate it."

G. K. Chesterton

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."

William Blake

"For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day,

and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them."

Thomas Henry Huxley

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we will find it not."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For everything that lives is holy; life delights in life."

William Blake

"The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it."

Lao Tsu

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