Wisdom

History should be written as philosophy.

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.

Which came first — the observer or the particle?

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.

Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?

They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words, making people like you...

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....And, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.