| Quotes |
Topic |
| Action | Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement Mankind has to be stirred up |
| Adventure | Without adventure civilization is in full decay |
| Cats | If a dog jumps in 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 |
| Common Sense | Common sense is genius in homespun |
| Science | Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them |
| Courage | True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason |
| Destiny | But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided |
| Growth | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order Life refuses to be embalmed alive |
| Knowledge | In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory |
| Language | Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks |
| Life | Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe |
| Order | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order Life refuses to be embalmed alive |
| Religion | The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature |
| Simplicity | Seek simplicity, and distrust it |
| Speech | Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language |
| Travel | One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering |
| Truth | There are no whole truths All truths are half truths It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil |
| Youth | The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy |
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