Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the read more

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the read more

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.