In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

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.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people.

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.

Can I wear your blazer?

I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?