If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.