Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

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

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.