Quote #622
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Quote #11273
I don’t fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually...
Quote #11535
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the...
Quote #4014
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Quote #16910
Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
Quote #17479
The beginning is always today.
Quote #5678
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions...
Quote #2796
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Quote #17492
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for...
Quote #7935
Language is the dress of thought.