bernard Quotes

“I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.”

“Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.”

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”

“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”

“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.”

“Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio”

“I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.”

“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”