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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Source: In The Speaker's...
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism; if you take it from many writers, it's...
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Source: In...
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
Source: In The Speaker's...
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most...
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at...
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than...
The true genius shudders at incompleteness -- and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not every thing...
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain...
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
For observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th'observer's sake.
Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was...
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his...
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have...
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Source: In The Speaker's...
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are...