The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

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.

If you find your sacred soul, bind the love bond.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

Believe it or not, but even when I’m sleeping, I’m dreaming about meeting fans