Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.