Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: "Brecht, amputate a leg!", I would reply, "Certainly, Your Excellency!", and cut off the leg. If I was told, "Perform a trepanning!" I opened the man's skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.

Eats first, morals after.