Stephen Vizinczey Quotes
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.