Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.