Good men must not obey the laws too well.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.


Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind
than not having any opinion at all.


George Lichtenberg

There is no need to seek truth,
only cease to cherish opinion.


Seng Tsan

Anything capable of being believed
is an image of truth.


William Blake

Truth is in all things, even partly in error.


Jean Luc Godard

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

I can believe anything, provided it is incredible.


Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I have believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.


Lewis Carroll

We believe as much as we can.
We would believe everything if we could.


William James

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them, to the impossible.


Arthur C. Clarke

Mans mind is a mirror of the universe
that mirrors mans mind.


Joseph Pearce

The mind is its own place, and in itself,
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.


John Milton

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Kahlil Gibran

In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.

Rene Sully-Prudhomme

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.


Rabindranath Tagore

Logic only gives a man what he needs.
Magic gives him what he wants.


Tom Robbins

It is far, far better to have a firm anchor in nonsense, than to put forth on the troubled sea of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

Piet Hein

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints, than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

G. K. Chesterton

Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise.


Thomas Gray

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must have chaos within you
to give birth to a dancing star.


Friedrich Nietzsche

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

G. K. Chesterton

The invariable mark of wisdom
is to see the miraculous in the common.


Ralph Waldo Emerson