It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
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.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.