The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.