"Clear your mind of cant." - Dr. Samuel Johnson

"It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him." - Mark Twain

"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side." - Oscar Levant

"To want to forget something is to think of it. - French Proverb

"Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." - Remy de Gourmont

"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov

"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."Joseph Joubert

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." - Thomas Huxley

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - Albert Camus

"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo

"I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher

"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses." - Edith Sodergran

"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping." - Kenneth Tynan Happy Birthday to me :)

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.