To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time. But if you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time.

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

I'm easy to hate. I get it.