The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

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.

Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

The things we earnestly chased like they are inevitable

God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes he uses anonymous people.

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.