Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.
There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.
The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0. 7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?