I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. (Yogi Berra)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)