The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

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.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

Just have fun and take every bit of experience that you can.

But (Peresphone) was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.