"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
- Sigmund Freud
"You can only be afraid of what you think you know."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?"
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better..."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? Wh..."
- Lance Armstrong
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know."
- Mark Twain
"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
- Eoin Colfer
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
- Howard Nemerov
"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."
- G.K. Chesterton
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"
- Socrates