"Was he a Swiss nationalist, or a nutso with a crossbow? I don't know."

— Bill Bailey

"One who studies and doesn’t practice is like a ladle of soup pot. It’s in the pot every day but it doesn’t know the flavor of the soup. If y…"

— Ajahn Chah

"Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid…"

— Richard Hofstadter

"I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis."

— Tom Robbins

"The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unkn…"

— V. S. Pritchett