Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799
was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce, 1842-1914
was an US author and satirist
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
( “The Devil's Dictionary”, 1906 )
John Ruskin, 1819-1900
was an English critic, essayist, and reformer
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
Henry George, 1839-1897
was an US economist
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.