Philosophy is the product of wonder.

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.

Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel!

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

I had a dream that I would be successful and happy in life…I woke up running out of breath, because I’ve been chasing this dream for quite a while now.

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.