Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.