Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.