Aldous Huxley — "To be able to see things as they are, without illusion, is a rare and precious g…"

"The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about tr…"

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge."

"To be well-informed is to have a great deal of information. To be wise is to have a great deal of information and to know what to do with it."

"The people who are most sure about everything are the least likely to know anything."

"I am a hopeless and horrible materialist."