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.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

Perhaps I shouldn’t like it so much, but I’ve always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories.

She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God’s gift to her, and she wouldn’t trade him for the world.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

As far as the fans, I always say it because it's the truth: without them I'm absolutely nothing.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.