God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.