| "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." »Niels Henrik David Bohr |
| "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." »Niels Bohr |
| "As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches." »Miles Kindera |
| "An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so." »Shakti Gawain |
| "Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |
| "Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley |
| "Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)" »Indira Nehru Gandhi |
| "I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." »Paula Poundstone |
| "When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable." »Paul De Gondi |
| "Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness." »M. Hirschfield |
| "account no man happy till he dies." »Euripides |
| "I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." »Douglas Adams |
| "I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." »John Burdon Sanderson Haldane |
| "A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." »Joseph F. Newton |
| "A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." »The Talmud |
| "There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." »George Eliot |
| "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." »Will Rogers |
| "Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded." »Fulton John Sheen |
| "Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil |
| "Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account." »Hannah Whitall Smith |
| "If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it." »Donald G. Smith |
| "It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love." »Sir Arthur Helps |
| "History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |
| "A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective." »Edward Teller |
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