An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.