| Quotes |
Topic |
| Accuracy | Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. |
| Achievement | The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. |
| Action | I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. |
| Age | Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
| Bigotry | The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. |
| Books | The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. |
| Science | Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. |
| Constitution | I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job. |
| Doubt | To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. |
| Doubt | To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. |
| Education | A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. |
| Ethics | The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. |
| Fame | Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. |
| Humanity | People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way? |
| Language | Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
| Language | Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
| Life | Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. |
| Life | I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. |
| Listening | It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
| Luxury | Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries. |
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