明白事理的人使自己适应世界；不明事理的人想使世界适应自己。所以，所有进步都要靠不明事理的人。
你和我各有一个苹果，如果我们交换苹果的话，我们还是只有一个苹果。但当你和我各有一个想法，我们交换想法的话，我们就都有两个想法了。
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. )
人往往将现况归咎于环境因素，但我不相信造化弄人。世界上出类拔萃的人都是运筹帷幄，主动找寻自己想要的环境。要是遍寻不获，他们就创造一个。
爱国主义是一种有害的、精神错乱的白痴形式。
自由意味着责任，正因为如此，多数人都惧怕自由。
所有伟大的艺术和文学都是宣传。
金钱的匮乏是所有罪恶的根源。
所有伟大的真理开始于对上帝的亵渎。
所谓爱国心，是指因你生为这个国家的国民，相信这个国家比其他一切的国家高贵优越。
你和我各有一个苹果，如果我们交换苹果的话，我们还是只有一个苹果。但当你和我各有一个想法，我们交换想法的话，我们就都有两个想法了。
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.