Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. - David Ben-Gurion

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Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. - David Ben-Gurion

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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. - David Ben-Gurion

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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. -Immanuel Kant

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Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

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I’m not into trading ownership of the only asset I have, which is my intellectual property. – Nipsey Hussle

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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. - David Ben-Gurion

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