To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.

There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.

There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. read more

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: read more

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.