Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

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.

She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.

Success has nothing to do with what we accomplish for ourselves, but the amount of hard works we put forward to others

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist.

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

A 'problem' is nothing more than a gorgeous opportunity to discover an even better solution.

Human nature fascinates me.

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.