Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.