A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.