Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. |
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly. |
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. |
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. |
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
To knock a thing down,
especially if it is cocked
at an arrogant angle,
is a deep delight
of the blood. |
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. |
Only the dead have seen the end of war. |
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely. |
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and reestablish themselves alone. |
[I'm too old to] be influenced by newspaper arguments. When I read them I form perhaps a new opinion of the newspaper but seldom a new opinion on the subject discussed. |
