Selected Short Quotes 

I say in the spiritual world we want individualism. It is in the material world that we want socialism. We have socialism now in the spiritual world and we have individualism now in the material world

Bertrand Russell

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest

Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf

Logic is in the eye of the logician

Gloria Steinem

A witty saying proves nothing

Voltaire

I used to say that politics was the world's second oldest profession, and I have now come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first.

Ronald Reagan

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument

Someone

The American mind-set celebrates winning and avoids noticing the corollary, that winners win only what losers lose.

Naomi Wolf

There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

Mr. Stephens, Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything

George Bernard Shaw

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think

Benjamin Disraeli

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

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