Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!
Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.
