If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.