Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make anything happen.

I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.