- 广义地说，最渴望权力之人就是最可能获得权力之人。
- 即使真相并不令人愉快，也一定要做到诚实，因为掩盖真相往往要费更大力气。
- 人生来无知但不愚蠢，反而是教育让人变得愚蠢。Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. 我们面临这样一个进退两难的境地，即教育已经成为智慧和自由思想最主要的障碍之一。
- 对付贫穷要有勇气，忍受嘲笑要有勇气，正视自己营垒里的敌对者也要有勇气。