"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Conformity
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"Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother."

Jones, Beverly on Housework
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"Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts."

Stevens, Abel on Courtesy
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"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

Watt, James on Lies and Lying
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"Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God."

Twain, Mark on Opinions
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Friends and Friendship
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"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

Crockett, Davy on Government
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"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name."

France, Anatole on Chance
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"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on Fashion
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"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

France, Anatole on Innocence
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"Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation."

Landau, Saul on Taxes and Taxation
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on Dogs
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"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

Plato on Virtue
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"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on Men and Women
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"A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood."

Gray, John on Men and Women
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"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."

Fix, Paul on Thoughts and Thinking
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"A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."

Dewey, John on Thoughts and Thinking
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"He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]"

Bible on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Aurelius, Marcus on Thoughts and Thinking
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"If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening."

Barzan, George on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on Loneliness
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."

Allen, James on Thoughts and Thinking
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"We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought."

Cousins, Norman on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

James, William on Thoughts and Thinking
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"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."

Kettering, Charles F. on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever."

Secker, Thomas on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on Belief
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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

Pascal, Blaise on Sin
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"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on God
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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

Pascal, Blaise on Faith
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"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

Pascal, Blaise on Faith
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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

Patton, George S. on Soldier
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"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Pascal, Blaise on Heart
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"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

Plato on Thoughts and Thinking
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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

Paine, Thomas on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

Bierce, Ambrose on Food and Eating
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"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."

Reagan, Ronald on War
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"No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!"

Gerard, Ralph on Procrastination
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