“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 98
Source: How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday
“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”
Lawrence M. Schoen (1959) American writer and klingonist
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)
Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967) German-American psychologist and phenomenologist
Source: Gestalt Psychology. 1930, p. 150
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Dracula's Daughter, telling Garth that she believes Von Helsing's story of vampires Unbeknownst to Garth, the Countess is a vampire.
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Christian Nestell Bovee, in Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124
Misattributed
“The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.”
Keshia Chante (1988) Canadian actor and musician
Inside Entertainment (2008)
“Sybil had an unreal, larger-than-life feeling... as if she were a person in a book.”
Rudy Rucker (1946) American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 103
“I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Interview on Nationwide (1 July 1983).
“A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 159
Gene Simmons (1949) Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and actor
What I've Learned (July 2002)
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.”
John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise
Or, for that matter, as true.
Source: The Areas of My Expertise (2005), p. 18
“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“Our security has been diminished rather than enhanced as a result of the conquests in this war.”
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994) israeli intellectual
"The Territories" (1968)
