| Author |
Quotes |
| David Mamet | In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. |
| Denis Diderot | No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. |
| Desiderius Erasmus | In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. |
| Dhammapada | In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace. |
| Dick Cavett | To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. |
| Don Herold | There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
| E R Beadle | Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. |
| Earl Camden | It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. |
| Eduardo Galeano | We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. |
| Elias Canetti | A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. |
| Elizabeth Dunphy | Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend. |
| Epictetus | No man is free who is not a master of himself. |
| Eric Hoffer | Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. |
| Eric Hoffer | To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. |
| Eric Hoffer | It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. |
| Ernest Benn | Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. |
| Ernest Dimnet | What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. |
| F Scott Fitzgerald | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. |
| Felix Frankfurter | Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. |
| Frank Crane | Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays. |
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