The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!

.....before we can change the world we need to change our minds.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.