The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.