Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Costs merely register competing attractions.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

Don't look with your eyes. Don't think with your mind. Know with your heart.

An ordinary method will never produce extraordinary expectation of a prayer life.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.