“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing”
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“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing”
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all”
“The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done”
“Some people read because they are too lazy to think”
“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”
“Logic is the anatomy of thought”
“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have”
“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical”
“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”
“A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.”
“Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it”
“One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking”
“The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind”
“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy”
“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative”
“Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right”
“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”
“Ideas are, in truth, force.”
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing”