| Author |
Quotes |
| Arthur Koestler | ...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination. |
| Arthur Koestler | ...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. |
| Arthur Koestler | The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. |
| Aubrey Menan | That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. |
| August Strindberg | Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. |
| Augustine | None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. |
| B H Liddell Hart | Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. |
| B H Liddell Hart | In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance. |
| Barbara Jordan | Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. |
| Benjamin R Barber | Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. |
| Benjamin Rush | Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. |
| Bertrand De Jouvenal | Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. |
| Bill Vaughan | Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. |
| Bishop Honorius | The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the field. The unicorn approaches her, and resting in her lap, is so taken. |
| Brendan Gill | Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. |
| Brock Chisolm | You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. |
| Cecil F Alexander | The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate. |
| Cervantes | The pen is the tongue of the mind. |
| Cesare Pavese | Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. |
| Charles Darwin | Without speculation there is no good and original observation. |
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