Quotes to the Quick

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-----Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.

"Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error."
----- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

"Boredom is hunger."
----- Novalis

"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
-----Frederick II, the Great

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."
----- Winston Churchill, 1874-1965

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
-----Albert Ellis

"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time."
-----Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885

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Updated September 25, 2000