“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
Great“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
Science“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
Great“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
Wisdom“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”
Politics“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
History“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
Time“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
Science“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
Art“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
Nature“The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
Knowledge“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
Nature“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
Work“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
Best“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
Nature“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
Science“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Money“Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!”
Religion“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Learning“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
Equality“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
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