An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

You can always get better.

I'm very moody when it comes to food. Even before pregnancy I would just get very specific with things that I wanted.

I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.