For Over Two Thousand Years It Has

Freedom In Education Has Many Aspects. There Is First Of All Freedom To Learn Or Not To Learn. Then There Is Freedom As To What To Learn. And In Later Education There Is Freedom Of Opinion.

Not To Be Absolutely Certain Is, I Think, One Of The Essential Things In Rationality.

The World Is Full Of Magical Things Patiently Waiting For Our Wits To Grow Sharper.

The Widespread Interest In Gossip Is Inspired, Not By A Love Of Knowledge But By Malice: No One Gossips About Other People's Secret Virtues, But Only About Their Secret Vices. Accordingly Most Gossip Is Untrue, But Care Is Taken Not To Verify It. Our Neighbour's Sins, Like The Consolations Of Religion, Are So Agreeable That We Do Not Stop To Scrutinise The Evidence Closely.

The Whiter My Hair Becomes, The More Ready People Are To Believe What I Say.