Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-05-31 May 31, 2002Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.~ Ambrose BierceIt is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.~ William Gibbs McAdoo May 30, 2002An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.~ Albert CamusThe important thing is never to stop questioning.~ Albert EinsteinEvery really new idea looks crazy at first.~ Alfred North Whitehead May 29, 2002Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within.~ José Ortega y GassetLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it.~ Judge Learned Hand May 28, 2002You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.~ Florynce KennedyIf you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.~ George Bernard Shaw May 27, 2002Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.~ Anne Louise Germaine de Stael[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print