Thoughtful Thursday

"There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face."
- Georg Lichtenberg

"A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income."
- Lord Philip Chesterfield

"There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook."
- Norman Douglas

"Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions."
- Paul Valery

"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."
- Gilbert Chesterton

"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively."
- Voltaire

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
- Aeschylus