“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

“When acorn falls on head, it doesn't mean the rest of the Oak tree will follow.”

“If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”

“It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization”

“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”

“Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.”

“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best — and therefore never scrutinize or question.”

“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.”

“It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.”