Quote #27519
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Quote #26897
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years...
Quote #33504
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing...
Quote #23673
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than...
Quote #11873
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are...
Quote #21213
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave...
Quote #16428
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve...
Quote #15441
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
Quote #5337
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Quote #27538
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse