Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

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.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

Ultimately virility is all about helping others express their reluctantly shared feelings while doing so from a safe distance.

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

A work of art is an exaggeration.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams