Quotes 201 till 220 of 559.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
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Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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