Notable Quotable 150

Nov 20, 2023

Any country that seeks to control others is a country that seeks aggression. Any country that seeks aggression is a country that seeks war. Any country that seeks war is a country that seeks domination. Therefore, any country that seeks control, aggression, war, and domination is a country that must enslave its people in order to advance this agenda of imperialism. This is a description of the United States of America today. It has become a nation based on control, aggression, war, and domination, and only a totalitarian regime can achieve and hold empire.

- Gary D. Barnett

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

- Charles Darwin

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

- Thomas Edison

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

- Isaac Asimov

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing.

- Hyman G. Rickover

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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

- Oscar Wilde

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

- Nagarjuna, India, alive circa 200 CE

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

- Hypatia of Alexandria, lived circa 400 CE in Alexandria, Egypt

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

- Arthur Schopenhauer