| Author |
Quotes |
| Robert Heinlein | Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. |
| Robert Heinlein | Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. |
| Robert Heinlein | Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. |
| Robert Heinlein | It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. |
| Robert Lindner | It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. |
| Roger J Williams | We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. |
| Rollo May | It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings. |
| Rollo May | Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. |
| Rotarian | If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. |
| S I Hayakawa | If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. |
| Samuel N Behrman | A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. |
| Schopenhauer | One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. |
| Simone Weil | A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. |
| Sir J Lubbock | People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
| Stanley Schmidt | Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions. |
| Steve Allen | we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. |
| Susan Sontag | A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter. |
| Theodor Reik | Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. |
| Theodore Gomperz | When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. |
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