Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.