We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Jack: "..You were the on­ly one I saw when I closed my eyes"Lexi: "Then why wasn't I enough when they were open?

You're scared of what you can't control

To teach her that not all monsters are in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.

We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori