. . . a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
Put your trust in Allah and not in anyone other than Him, because it is known that He alone is the Helper.