Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.