Great Thinkers

  "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~ Voltaire

  “There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” ― John Locke

"The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That is all you need to know. Nothing more" — Marcus Aurelius

  "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions." — Hafez

  When someone reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay home." — Diogenes

  “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” - Socrates

  Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. - Thomas Paine 

  “The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.” ― Camille Paglia

  The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. ~ Maximilien Robespierre

  “Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.” – Peter Kropotkin