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Never assume the obvious is true.

- William Safire

 

Science is not only compatible with spirituality,; it is a profound source of spirituality.

- Carl Sagan

 

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

- Carl Sagan

 

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

- Francois Sagan

 

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

- Francois Sagan

 

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

- Francois Sagan

 

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life. But what is that something?

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

- John Charles Salak

 

The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting.

- Sallust

 

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

- Sharon Salzberg

 

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

- Herbert Samuel

 

I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

- Carl Sandburg

 

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

- George Santayana

 

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

- George Santayana

 

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

- George Santayana

 

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

- George Santayana

 

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

- George Santayana

 

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

 

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

 

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

 

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

 

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

 

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

 

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you not have done for a truffled turkey?

- Brillat-Savarin

 

I have spent my whole life looking for the perfect woman, and now I've found her. Too bad she's looking for the perfect man.

- Robert Scharm

 

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

- Friedrich von Schiller

 

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

- Schlegel

 

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

 

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself.

- Helmut Schoeck

 

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

- Helmut Schoeck

 

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.

- Caroline Schoeder

 

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

 

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

- Robert H. Schuller

 

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

- Carl Schurz

 

Every challenge we face can be solved by a dream.

- David Schwartz

 

Even paranoids have real enemies.

- Delmore Schwartz

 

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

- Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

- Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

Condoms should be marketed in 3 sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.

- Barbara Seaman

 

What makes life worth living? To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.

- Searamouche

 

Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

- John R. Searle

 

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

- David Searls

 

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.

- Pesach Seder

 

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

- Jerry Seinfeld

 

You cannot find yourself, only create yourself.

- Anne B. Sekel

 

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.

- Emily H. Sell

 

There must be more to life than having everything.

- Maurice Sendak

 

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

- Seneca

 

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.

- Mary Shafer

 

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'

- Ronnie Shakes

 

Life is but a walking shadow,
a poor player that struts and
frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard of no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare

 

Lord! We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.

- William Shakespeare

 

What time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

- William Shakespeare

 

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

- William Shakespeare

 

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

- William Shakespeare

 

Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.

- William Shakespeare

 

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

- William Shakespeare

 

O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

- William Shakespeare

 

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.

- William Shakespeare

 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

 

Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

- H. W. Shaw

 

If you take too long deciding what to do with your life, you'll ind you've done it.

- Pam Shaw

 

Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it.

- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

 

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

- Percy Shelley

 

No matter where you stand, no matter how far or fast you flee, when it hits the fan, as much as possible will be propelled in your direction, and almost none will be returned to the source.

- John L. Shelton

 

Meditate on knowing and not knowing, existing and not existing. Then leave both aside so that you may be.

- Shiva

 

We forfeit 3/4 of our lives to be like other people.

- Arthur Shopenhauer

 

Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

- Dinah Shore

 

If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.

- Sir Henry Sidney

 

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

 

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.

- Ignazio Silone

 

Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.

- Julian Simon

 

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

- Julian Simon

 

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

- Sivananda

 

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

- B.F. Skinner

 

The experience to be gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

- Samuel Smiles

 

Universities are designed for the convenience of the faculty, not for the convenience of the students.

- Adam Smith

 

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

 

I can’t forgive my friends for dying; I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

 

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

- Logan Pearsall Smith

 

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

- Red Smith

 

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

- Ralph W. Sockman

 

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

- Socrates

 

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

- Socrates

 

Better to do a little well, than a great deal badly.

- Socrates

 

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

- Socrates

 

To find yourself, think for yourself.

- Socrates

 

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.

- Socrates

 

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

- Alexander Solzhenitzyn.

 

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

- Sophocles

 

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

- Sophocles

 

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistake.

- George Soros

 

The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.

- Thomas Sowell

 

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

- Spanish proverb

 

Only God helps the badly dressed.

- Spanish proverb

 

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

- Spanish proverb

 

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

- Herbert Spencer

 

Like - what's the point of poetry when you can like - uh - talk?

- Jon Spiegel

 

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

- Baruch Spinoza

 

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

- Baruch Spinoza

 

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

- Joseph Stalin

 

An informal survey shows that what most people want for Christmas is two more weeks to prepare for it.

- Bob Stanley

 

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

- Olaf Stapledon

 

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

- Pamela Vaull Starr

 

Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

- Judith Stearn

 

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can close our eyes.

- Richard Steele

 

This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

- John Steinbeck

 

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

- Gloria Steinem

 

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

- Stendhal

 

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

- James Stephens

 

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

- James Stephens

 

Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

- Elf Sternberg

 

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

- Laurence Sterne

 

That which seems to be the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

 

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

 

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

 

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

 

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

 

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

 

Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

 

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

- Stokowski

 

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone

 

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

- Sally Struthers

 

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

- Sufism - Abdullah Ansari (Islam)

 

More men fail through lack of purpose rather than lack of talent.

- Billy Sunday

 

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde

 

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

- Shunryu Suzuki

 

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

 

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

 

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.

- Swedish Proverb

 

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

- Jonathan Swift

 

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

- Jonathan Swift

 

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

 

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

- Publius Syrus

 

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

- Publius Syrus

 

Where there is unity there is always victory.

- Publius Syrus

 

Why do psychiatrists systematically impose themselves on persons who want to have nothing to do with them? I believe they do so because, like most people, psychiatrists love power and exult in pushing others around.

- Thomas Szasz