A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are.""Worse, " Santi sighed.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

You will never find true love until you first learn to love Allah

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

I don't take criticism lying down.