It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.