Today

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

- Confucius

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

- H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships,"

- W. E. B. Du Bois, first African American to earn a Ph.D.

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

- George Orwell

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

- Dorothea Lange

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”

- Dorothea Lange

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.”

- P.D. James, The Children of Men

“History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”

- Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley