It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.