First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?