Celia Green Quotes

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

People having religions is an insult to the universe.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.