“Don't fight forces, use them.”
“Dictators never invent their own opportunities.”
“You can never learn less, you can only learn more.”
“A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.”
“Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.”
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
“Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.”
“Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.”
“The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
“Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.”
“If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.”
“Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
“Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.”
“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”
“Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.”
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”
“What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.”
“Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.”
“Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.”