Nothing short of everything will really do.

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.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

God should always be our first thought, not our last resort.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted.