ObscureMammal

"The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. 
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
~ Douglas Adams

"I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned." 
~ Richard Feynman

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice...”
~ Charles Bukowski

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
~ Charles Bukowski

"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?" 
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
~ Bertrand Russell

“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”
~ Irvin D. Yalom

"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. "
~ Carl Sagan

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
~ Chuck Palahnuik

"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education."
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
~ Voltaire

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”
~ Soren Kierkegaard

"Dont cry because it's over, smile because it happened"
~ Dr. Seuss

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

~ Dr. Seuss

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." 
~ Albert Einstein

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
~ Plato

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it" 
~ Albert Einstein

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”
~ George Carlin

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
~ Thomas Henry Huxley

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

~ Oscar Wilde

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”

~ Olin Miller

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

~ Charles Bukowski

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

~ Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

~  Terry Pratchett