If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

Success need more than jumping, You must leap and hop

Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

Have faith in all that you make.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.

Be spacious. Open to listen and feel the other without prejudice.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.