| Quote | Details / possible source |
| “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by Vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime” | Mark Twain |
| “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing” | Alfred Wainwright |
| “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon” | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| “Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depth” | Paracelsus |
| “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” | … |
| “Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum” “To err is human, but to persist in error is diabolical” | Seneca |
| “Haya El Azzah: Why is it that when the powerful use force it is called “self-defense” and when the weak use force it is called “terrorism”?” | http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/posts/focus/6653.page |
| “The building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world” | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta |
| “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need” | Tyler Durden, Fight Club |
| “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” | George Orwell |
| “Cui prodest scelus, est fecit” “He who gains from crime, committed it” | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| “Did you ever experienced the strange phenomenon of Deja Vu Did you ever experienced the strange phenomenon of Deja Vu” | Monty Python |
| “To be is to do” “To do is to be” “Do be do be do” | Socrates Sartre Frank Sinatra |
| “Once you’re over the hill, you’ll pick up speed” | … |
| “Fail to Prepare then Prepare to Fail” | … |
| “A false sense of security is worse than being unsure” | … |
| “Son, when you participate in sporting events, it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how drunk you get” | Homer Simpson |
| “Never eat yellow snow” | … |
| “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success” | … |
| “Of course we don’t know what we’re doing. Otherwise it wouldn’t be called research” | Albert Einstein |
| “Library: Kind of an early version of the World Wide Web” | … |
| “Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something” | … |
| “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it” | George Moore |
| “Trying is the first step towards failure” | Homer Simpson |
| “An objective knowledge of the human self will only be possible through contact with other mammals or with inhabitants of other planets” | Carl Gustav Jung |
| “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” | Albert Einstein |
| “The world wishes to be deceived” | Sebastian Franck around 1500 A.D. |
| “If You Don’t Stand For Something You Will Fall For Anything” | Malcolm X |
| “There is no place like 127.0.0.1” | … |
| “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite” | William Blake |
| “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former” | Albert Einstein |
| “Everything is about sex, except for sex, which is about power” | Franc Underwood (House of Cards) |
| “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you. Then you win” | Mahatma Gandhi |
| “It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how much it may bother those in power. We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not” | Carl Sagan, 1991 at UCLA |
| “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance” | Albert Einstein |
| “The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it” | Albert Einstein |
| “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on” | Winston Churchill |
| “If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you” | Oscar Wilde |
| “Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience” | … |
| “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome” | Isaac Asimov |
| “People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun’s out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within” | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
| “Nothing endures, but change” | Heraclitus 540 – 480 BC |
| “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes” | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident” | Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860 |
| “The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater” | Frank Zappa, musician and cultural iconoclast |
| “Attacking Iraq after 9-11 is like Roosevelt attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbor” | John Kerry |
| “I have seen the truth, and the truth has made me odd” | Flannery O’Conner |
| “War is never a solution; it is an aggravation” | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality” | Michael Ellner |
| “Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone” | Tommy Cooper |
| “The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?” | … |
| “80% of all questions are statements in disguise” | Dr. Phil |
| “When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth” | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens” | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends” | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort” | Herm Albright (1876 – 1944) |
| “Nothing is absolute. Redefine concepts, redefine yourself. Barriers are in your mind. Accept No Limits” | Patrick Musimu |
| “America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.” | Sigmund Freud |
| “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared” | Buddha |
Updated 24-03-2026