Quote #19661
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so...
Quote #5746
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word “academic” in a pejorative sense...
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Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will...
Quote #2191
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on...
Quote #5353
Tradition is laziness.
Quote #12507
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Quote #14441
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension...
Quote #8419
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown...
Quote #22260
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence...
Quote #30793
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of...