James Rozoff Quotes

Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.

There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse hims...

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a sing...

If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.

We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mu...

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.