"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."
- Lyall Watson

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes."
- Albert Einstein

"Death solves all problems, no man, no problem."
- Joseph Stalin

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a simple step. "
- Lao Tzu

"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Instrumental or mechanical sciencce is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"I think we all agree, the past is over."
- George W. Bush

"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
- Sun Tzu

"There never was a good knife made of bad steel."
- Benjamin Franklin

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
- Albert Einstein

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
- Socrates

"He who commands the sea has command of everything."
- Themistocles

"Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart."
- Japanese Proverb

"Those who lose dreaming are lost."
- Australian Aboriginal saying

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations."
- Kofi Annan

"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!"
- John Parker

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
- Henry Ford

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana

"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
- Aesop

"Education is the best provision for old age."
- Aristotle

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
- Christopher Dawson

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences."
- Roger Bacon

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
- Galileo

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
- Jonathan Swift

"Every great advance in science has issues from a new audacity of imagination."
- John Dewey

"The Law is a fortress on a hill that armies cannot take or floods wash away."
- The Prophet Muhammad

"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."
- Joseph Stalin

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Rather than love, money, fame, give me the truth"
- Henry David Thoreau