Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

Your mind is the biggest uninvented gold mine. Dig it

Washington was no politician as we understand the word, " replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start.

Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.