“Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration”
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“Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration”
“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity”
“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance”
“It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished”
“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost”
“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly”
““Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing”
“An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains”
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about”
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things”
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”
“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf”
“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason”
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts”
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone”
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes”
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”
“A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.”