Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

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.

You have to want the book enough to read it.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.