The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.