Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.

Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious

A concept is stronger than a fact.

They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour In field and woodland, and each punctual flower Bows at the signal an obedient head And hastens to bed.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of faults; we reprove, not so much with a view to correcting them, as to persuade them that we are exempt from those faults ourselves.