"Opponents fancy they refute us when they..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.”

“It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.”

“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.”

“Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.”

“Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?”

“Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.”

“Don't use big words. They mean so little.”

“Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.”

“Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?”