Today

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them."

- André Gide, Autumn Leaves

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

- Seneca

“Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few friends.”

- Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess

“Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity.”

- Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

- Thomas Jefferson

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside us,”

- Charles Darwin

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”

- Bertrand Russell