. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Don't judge people by their physical appearances if you truly want to get to know them. Just watch their frequent footsteps and you would surely know their true personalities.

You don't go from a Yugo to a Benz, back to a Yugo.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

But authors before they write should read.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

It's always nice to start off with a good result.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.