Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Much learning does not teach understanding.