Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

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.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

Do not be scared of the incumbents.

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.