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Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Pope Paul VI

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he r...

George Pólya

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

On Certainty

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

City of Stairs

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing any...

Alex Tabarrok

My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion.

Amber Le Bon

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Brigham Young

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

Kip Thorne

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

E. W. Howe

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Jacob Bronowski

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

John Bruton

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Karl Barth

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Meir Kahane

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William Shirley

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

William Weld

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

Yves Tanguy

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Damien Hirst