"One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them."

“Everybody's funny in different ways.”

“These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.”

“To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom.”

Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 90), 2001.

“Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.”

Source : Attributed to Neal Boortz in "Quotes, Jokes & Anecdotes", edited by Gerard O'Boyle, 2012.

“Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”

“The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.”

“A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.”

Source : Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.8, HarperCollins UK