If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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.