Generations, character and science

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
~ George Orwell

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
~ Isaac Asimov

Mixed bag of thoughts

People demand freedom of speech to make up for freedom of thought, which they avoid.
~Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

A 2-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

Life's Challenges

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
~ Seneca

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
~ Carl Sandburg

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
~ George Eliot