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For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the impact on my mind was devastating. S...more

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Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist ca...more

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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians ...more

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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make...more

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It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you wou...more

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A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.

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Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.

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If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

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For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the u...more

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Women talk when they want to. Or don't.