Quotable Quotes -3

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan, writer (1895-1947)

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top.
Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience.
Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

A good listener helps us overhear ourselves. Yahia Lababidi, author (b.1973)

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?
James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take
it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The knife disappears with sharpening.
James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)