“What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
Albert Einstein
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde
“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
Abigail Van Buren
“To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.”
St. John of the Cross
“I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.”
Ogden Nash