No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination rules the world.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Facts are stubborn things.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.