There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.