More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.