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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is.
  More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth.
  Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Human All Too Human, aphorism 609

• Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. Ignorance of each other's ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war.
  • From the Constitution of UNESCO

• Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from those who are aggressive for what is wrong.
• To befool and mislead the people, to falsify public opinion, is to pervert and destroy a republican form of government.
  Free government is government by public opinion. Upon the soundness and integrity of public opinion depends the destiny of our democracy.
  • Robert M. La Follette Sr

• It is not enough for one's words to be understandable.
  One must make oneself unmisunderstandable.
  • Paraphrase of Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book VIII, Chapter II, 24

• La clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes.
  • Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.
    • Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Reflexions et Maximes, Maxim no. 729

• Δικαιοσύνης καρπὸς μέγιστος ἀταραξία.
  • The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
    • Attributed to Epicurus by Clement of Alexandria in Stromata

• Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
  • Obsequiousness begets friends; truth, enmity.
    • Terentius, Andria; Act I, scene i, line 41

• अनुभवति हि मूर्ध्ना पादपस्तीव्रमुष्णं ।
  शमयति परितापं छायया संश्रितानाम् ॥
  • The tree endures the scorching heat direct
    That others may find refuge in it's shade
    • Kalidasa, अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्

• Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
  • The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.
    • Schopenhauer, Willen in der Natur

• It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'
  • Aldous Huxley

• If you load your memory you should know why. Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles. Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I had learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. [...] I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.
  • Emanuel Lasker