One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.