It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.