The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
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Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.
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People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of
compassion,
between supposed lovers,
between supposed brothers.
And I know the pieces fit.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world
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The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent
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It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as b...
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
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I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone
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A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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