The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Every cause produces more than one effect.