- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
- All professions are plots against the laity.
- Insight, untested and unsupported, is an insufficient guarantee of truth.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based upon evidence, not on authority or intuition.
- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- [on George Bernard Shaw] As an iconoclast he is admirable, as an icon somewhat less so.
- One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is important.
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
- Conformity means death. Only Protest gives a hope of life.
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
- To my recollection there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
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