With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

Every race is totally different.

It's easier to die when you have lived than it is to die when you haven't.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Indistinctness is my forte.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.