We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965
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Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCOne’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922