Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Words can be like X-rays if used properly: they pass through everything. You read them and they pierce you. This is one of the things I try to teach my students: to write in a penetrating manner.
I wanted to change the world. But I have discovered that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
The one who wants to do good to the human race always ends up in universal intimidation.
The greatest difficulties of man begin when he can do what he wants.
Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Imagination is generous and selfless; intelligence calculates and clings to whatever it can.
Along with being right, in this world, it's best to be clear and definitively wrong.
It is a fact that man has to control science and occasionally check the progress of technology.
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
Society differs from nature in that it pursues a defined moral purpose.
The outcomes of political changes are rarely what their friends expect or their enemies fear.
Childhood is the stage when all men are creators.