The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.