“If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is not customary to love what one has

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

I was such a fool to fall for all the lies you told me.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only fools don’t contradict themselves.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.