A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful.
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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.