It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

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.

Evil is not good's absence but gravity'severlasting bedrock and its fatal chainsinert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.

But you can do one, you can do the other, or you can do both - meaning fight it out but be in a place that's more comfortable.

From the fact that E is evidence for T and the fact that T entails M, it doesn't follow that E is evidence for M.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.