We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.