The unexamined life is not worth living.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, "that which all things aim at."

That one may smile and smile and be a villain.

There are more things in heaven and earth,

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Thong to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!”

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes, but it is still I who see.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

I like to see an angry Englishman. They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

So many books, so little time.

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Accio Brain!

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?