Here are just some of my favorites, I tried to cut out some but its really hard.
Sorry its so long but...
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
~Albert Einstine
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
~Nicola Abbagnano
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others."
~George Matthew Adams
"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
~George Matthew Adams
"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you."
~George Matthew Adams
"Whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it; therefore nothing can be thought of except ideas in minds; therefore anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist."
~Bertrand Russell
"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."
~Antisthenes
"I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive."
~Nathaniel LeTonnerre
"If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?"
~John Lancaster Spalding
"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
~Friedrich Nietzche
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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."
~Albert Einstein
"When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free--free to think, to express my thoughts--free to live my own ideal, free to live for myself and those I loved, free to use all my faculties, all my senses, free to spread imagination's wings, free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope, free to judge and determine for myself . . . I was free! I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously faced all worlds."
~Robert G. Ingersoll
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and Im not sure about the former"
~Albert Einstein
"Life is never easy for those who dream."
~Robert James Waller
"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."
~David Lodge
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
~Anais Nin
"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."
~William Lyon Phelps
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
~Henry David Thoreau
"Do not seek for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions."
~Seng Ts'an
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
~Seneca
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? "
~Thomas H. Huxley
"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. "
~Thomas H. Huxley
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut"
~Sam Rayburn
"God created man...or was it the other way around?"
~???
"I think, therefor I am"
~Descartes
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
~Sir Francis Bacon
"But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
~ Robert Sargent Shriver
Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes, und nicht vielmehr Nichts?
~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them, the starry heaven above me, and the moral law within me."
~ Immanuel Kant
"Change alone is unchanging."
~ Heraclitus
"Man is something to be overcome; what have you done to overcome him?"
~Nietzsche
"A wise man, whether teaching or learning, only wishes to learn or teach those things which are useful."
~St. Maximos the Confessor
"Common sense is not so common."
~Voltaire
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
~Voltaire
"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"
~Epicurus
"Dare to break the wall of the cave of limited thinking, and venture toward the light. Your eyes may hurt a bit to behold the day, but you will never return to the darkness."
~???
" We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
~T. S. Eliot
" To see a world in a grain of sand:
And Heaven in a wildflower
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
~William Blake
"Light is not diminished by being shared."
~Desiderata
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
~Bertrand Russell
"Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it."
~Mark Twain
"If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst."
~Thomas Hardy
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
~Timothy Leary
"When you ask a question, do you truly want to know the answer, or are you merely flaunting your power?"
~Dune
"The unexamined life isn't worth living."
~Socrates
"In a world where you can be anything, be yourself."
~???
"Beware the man of one book."
~Thomas Aquinas
"Reason has always existed, although not always in a reasonable form."
~Karl Marx
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
~George Carlin
"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.
~Kacl Handey
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
~Napoleon Bonaparte
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
~Socrates
"Too long have I sat with lonesomeness; there have I unlearned silence !"
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"If a thousand people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
~Lao Tzu
"Truth does not ask to be believed. It asks to be tested ... If faith is valid, then anything goes."
~Dan Barker
"Fools have been and will always be the majority of mankind."
~Denis Diderot
"Ignorance and bad teeth have at least one thing in common. Keeping your mouth closed makes them both less obvious"
~Unknown Alanic wiseman.
"Nothing has meaning on its own. If it wills to have meaning then it does."
~???
"We are not indebted for our existence."
~???
"To whom it may concern, Dear humanity, what has happened to you?"
~???
“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
~Mohandas Gandhi
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
~Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
~Albert Einstein
“I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward god.”
~Albert Einstein