Wisdom

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Let him talk,' said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. 'Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.

The lesser you are, the more you become...

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Imagination governs the world.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.

Most bad people are good people that don’t know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society.

Everyone loves to slander everyone, and indulge in it willingly at anytime and anywhere.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.