What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Investigate, educate and organize.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
