Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are bot...
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Withou...
A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.
Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.
There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.