Advertising is legalized lying.
Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.