“It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?”

“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.”

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

“People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.”

“People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.”

“I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.”