“You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.” — Flannery O'Connor

“No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.” — Herman Melville

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. —Denis Diderot

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” — William Wilberforce

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” — Karl Popper

“Bad weather makes for good photography.” — Ansel Adams

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” — Niels Bohr

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” — Raymond Chandler

“It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.” — Joseph Stalin

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.” — Cormac McCarthy

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.” — William Shakespeare

“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.” — W. C. Fields

“Read between the lines. Then meet me in the silence if you can.” — May Sarton

“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.” — Madame de Stael

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” — Wole Soyinka

“The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.” — E. B. White

“The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.” — Eric Sevareid

“Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.” — Steve McQueen

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama