Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.