"And the light shineth in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not."
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he knows something."
"You can pretend to be serious;
you can't pretend to be witty."
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
"Education is a progressive discovery
of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"I have often regretted my speech,
never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge."
-Daniel J. Boorstein
"The more a man knows, the less he talks."
"The tongue is not steel --
yet it cuts."
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