“You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

“The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. ”

“I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.”

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”