Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.

Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.