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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”
    Wodehouse

  • #6
    “Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.”
    Chris Boucher

  • #7
    Robert Anton Wilson
    “Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.”
    Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers

  • #8
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

  • #9
    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #13
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “I guess there are never enough books.”
    John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

  • #17
    Saul Bellow
    “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
    Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

  • #18
    Shaun Tan
    “Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?”
    Shaun Tan

  • #19
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #20
    H.L. Mencken
    “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
    H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques

  • #21
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.”
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

  • #22
    Michael Pollan
    “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
    Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

  • #23
    Michael Pollan
    “Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
    Michael Pollan

  • #24
    Dorothy Parker
    “If I didn't care for fun and such,
    I'd probably amount to much.
    But I shall stay the way I am,
    Because I do not give a damn.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #25
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • #26
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
    Evelyn Waugh

  • #27
    Dorothy Parker
    “Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #28
    George Santayana
    “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
    George Santayana

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde



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