The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

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.

Wherever you decide to go, proceed with your mind.

Sometimes the things that happen aren't as important as the things you remember.

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.