None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.