An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

It’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.