Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

All art is quite useless.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I am not a televangelist.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Law is mind without reason.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Humor is reason gone mad.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

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

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

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.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.