Epictetus

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Epictetus

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Epictetus

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Stephen Hawking

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny

Stephen Hawking

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Stephen Hawking

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

Stephen Hawking

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Epicurus

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Huang Po

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Albert Einstein

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. … Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Sir Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Mario Andretti

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough

George Carlin

Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

George Carlin

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Voltaire

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.

Mark Twain

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

Mark Twain

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Reverend Richard DeYoung II

May all your broken resolutions be easily forgotten and all of your revenges sweet and thorough.