Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.