Never mistake motion for action.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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 haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.