Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.