Wisdom

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity.

Conformity is contagious.

Time travel was only a kind of magic, after all. That's why it always went wrong.

Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

I have plenty of time... If I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.

Excerpt from 'The Strength in Knowing'Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

We are the sum total of our choices.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

Feelings are what you experience when you try to access the immeasurable.

Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

...In the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.