Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.