Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

A hopeful journey is more important than the destination.

Even through the smoke, you are still the most beautiful thingin this city and I, well, I am stillthe last thing you’d save in a fire.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

You stop growing when you stop listening.

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.