Darkly Comedy Quotes

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A man is never astonished that he doesn’t know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does. – Haliburton

From the little spark may burst a mighty flame. – Dante

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. – Josh Billings
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. – Froude

Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. – Dr. William Mather Lewis

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. – R.M. Baumgardy

Research teaches a man to admit he is wrong and to be proud of the fact that he does so, rather than try with all his energy to defend an unsound plan because he is afraid that admission of error is a confession of weakness when rather it is a signal of strength. – Prof. H. E. Stocher

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain. – William Adams Brown