It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.