“The unexamined life is not worth living,” -Socrates

“I doubt, therefore I know.” - Anselm (Before Descartes)

“it is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well” - Descartes

"Tabula Rasa" - Locke

“we are a part of all that we have met.” Tennyson

“To base thought only on speech is to try nailing whispers to the wall” (Rosenthal, 1994)

""If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail." - Maslow

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost" -J. R. R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The man who goes alone can start today." -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Wrong must not win by technicalities." --Aeschylus

"Evil law is no law at all." --St. Augustine

"No man is a good citizen unless he so acts as to show that he actually uses the Ten Commandments, and translates the Golden Rule into his life conduct." --Theodore Roosevelt

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. -- Douglas Adams

"All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures." --Julius Caesar

"The only way to make sure that government doesn't abuse its power is to not grant it in the first place." --Tom DeWeese

"Politicians and government bureaucrats are not good at recognizing the unintended consequences of their own actions. ...Most people, most of the time, will behave in a relatively rational manner, and thus government should leave them alone unless they are a clear and present danger to others." --Richard W. Rahn

"If Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore were a self-styled artist who soaked his Ten Commandments monument in urine, he might have been allowed to keep it on display in the courthouse and gotten an NEA grant to boot." --W. James Antle III

"In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class -- which is now living in Arizona." --Ann Coulter

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop

"Money won't make you happy." -- Poor People

"But if you get that money thing out of the way, you certainly will have much more time to work on the things that do make you happy." -- Jim Rohn