Quotations

1- Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. “N. Mumford Jones”

2- The object of education of children lies not in communicating the values of the past, but creating new values of the future. “John Dewey”

3- We are in science fiction now. Whoever controls the media – the images – controls the culture. “Allen Ginsberg”

4- Nobody ever lost money understanding the taste of the American public. “H. L. Mencken”

5- We used to have actresses trying to become stars. Now we have stars trying to become actresses. “Sir Laurence Olivier”

6- America is the only nation in history that has gone directly from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization. “Georges Clemenceau”

7- Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. “Ambrose Bierce”

8- Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. “Ambrose Bierce”

9- … on enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never on abiding one. “Sir Charles Sherrington”

10- Our normal waking consciousness … is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus , and at a touch they are there in all their completeness. “William James”

11- Don’t forget that everybody, including myself, has only his own experience to think with. “Rudolf Flesch”

12- Old age puts more wrinkles in the mind than in the face. “Montaigne”

13- When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail. “Abraham Maslow”

14- He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave. “William Drummond”

15- What passes for common sense is often stupidity hardened into habit. “Herman Wouk”


16- When I works, I works hard; When I sits, I sits loose; When I thinks, I falls asleep. “Anonymous”

17- Many of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive
hindrances to the elevation of mankind. “Henry David Thoreau”

18- The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to great lie than to a small lie. “Adolph Hitler”

19- In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog and for no good reason. “Ernest Hemingway”

20- Some men are discovered; others are found out. “Anonymous”

21- There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything and to doubt everything. Both ways save thinking. “Alfred Korzybski”

22- Every crowd has a silver lining. “Phineas T. Barnum”

23- You can fool some of the people all the time, and that’s enough to make a profit. “Anonymous”

24- Honesty is the best policy in the long run, but for the short distance humbug has made pretty good time. “Josh Billings”

25- Advertising may be defined as the art of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. “Stephen Leacock”

26- Don’t trust any thought you have sitting down. “Friederich Nietzsche”

27- Oh, goddamnit! We forgot the silent prayer! “Dwight Eisenhower”

28- We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then we go with the drove. We have two opinions; one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one – the one we use – which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we come by it. “Mark Twain”

29- The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes longer. “E. R. Murrow”

30- Wisdom is merely knowing what to do next. “Anonymous”

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