Megan's quotes

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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,135 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,281 people liked it

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
— Charles de Gaulle

tags: cheese, food, politics
98 people liked it

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "
— Ronald Reagan

tags: candy, character, dessert, food, jellybeans, snacks
76 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,087 people liked it

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."
— Aristotle

tags: education
105 people liked it

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,507 people liked it

"I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them."
— Philip Pullman

tags: cruelty, religion
186 people liked it

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

tags: atheism, philosophy
395 people liked it

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
295 people liked it

"Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard."
— Gene Roddenberry

5 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,847 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,413 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

1,778 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,388 people liked it

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

692 people liked it

"Never memorize something that you can look up."
— Albert Einstein

432 people liked it

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
248 people liked it

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
— Albert Einstein

116 people liked it

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
— Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
114 people liked it

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, philosophy, science
90 people liked it

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
— Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading
212 people liked it

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
— Aristotle

tags: politics
72 people liked it