Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.