There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact