The Greatest Enemy Of Progress

Self-discipline Without Talent Can Often Achieve Astounding Results, Whereas Talent Without Self-discipline Inevitably Dooms Itself To Failure.

Between The Semi-educated, Who Offer Simplistic Answers To Complex Questions, And The Overeducated, Who Offer Complicated Answers To Simple Questions, It Is A Wonder That Any Questions Get Satisfactorily Answered At All.

Those Who Imagine That The World Is Against Them Have Generally Conspired To Make It True.

At It's Highest Level, The Purpose Of Teaching Is Not To Teach—it Is To Inspire The Desire For Learning. Once A Student's Mind Is Set On Fire, It Will Find A Way To Provide Its Own Fuel.

Agnosticism Is A Perfectly Respectable And Tenable Philosophical Position; It Is Not Dogmatic And Makes No Pronouncements About The Ultimate Truths Of The Universe. It Remains Open To Evidence And Persuasion; Lacking Faith, It Nevertheless Does Not Deride Faith. Atheism, On The Other Hand, Is As Unyielding And Dogmatic About Religious Belief As True Believers Are About Heathens. It Tries To Use Reason To Demolish A Structure That Is Not Built Upon Reason.