James Fleming:  

stions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.” --George Santayana "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt all things." – Descartes “A human being is part of the whole called by us universe , a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” –Albert Einstein “People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” -- St. Augustine “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” -- Albert Einstein "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." — Stephen Jay Gould ”The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. “ --Bertrand Russell “The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” –Edward De Bono “In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.” --Edward de Bono "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. --Abraham Lincoln “Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.” --Evelyn Waugh “Humor, after all, is nothing more than pain and despair, recollected in tranquility and mitigated by half-demented laughter” --Peter Egan “Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” --Elbert Hubbard "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." — Anthony Jay “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” --Pablo Picasso “A camel is a horse designed by committee.” Sir Alec Issigonis “Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.” --Dwight D. Eisenhower "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. " --George S. Patton “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.” --Lao-Tzu There is no creativity in certainty; no discovery in absolutes; no breakthrough ideas birthed in the bright light of established fact." -- Joyce Wycoff “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” –Tom Clancy "It's not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity, and make it work for you." - Frank Zappa".