Wisdom Quotes — page 471

The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

The clergy are as like as peas.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

Wit and good nature meeting in a fair young lady as they do in you make the best resemblance of an angel that we know; and he that is blessed with the conversation and friendship of a person so extraordinary enjoys all that remains of …

The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.

542. All Saint without, all Devil within.

To a boyling pot flies come not.

Congratulation, n. The civility of envy.

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.

Von Hoff has suggested, with great probability, that the changes in the level of the Caspian

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

All the cupolas constructed, up to the epoch of Constantine, were with brick and , in the Arabic style

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip.

It is remarkable of the simple substances that they are generally in some compound form.

present difficulties of no ordinary magnitude: and the man

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.