H.W. Charles Quotes
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you
I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M
