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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could no...  
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he ...  
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its ...  
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.  
A new untruth is better than an old truth.  
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the f...  
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were g...  
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred time...  
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of ...  
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.  
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should ...  
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of wo...  
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.  
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cinc...  
Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming";  
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to o...  
Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.  
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreea...  
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a...  
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most import...  
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...  
Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.  
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebo...  
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.  
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achie...  
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.  
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant po...  
Have the courage to act instead of react.  
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning  
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might ha...  
I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.  
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general pro...   Science
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man t...  
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...  
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but...  
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. T...  
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively c...  
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.  
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the singl...  
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life w...  
Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.  
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of w...  
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, ...  
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.  
Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five m...  
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.  
Love prefers twilight to daylight.  
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original d...  
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the...  
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too of...  
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readi...  
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because t...  
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.  
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.   Age
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original d...  
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up on...  
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes o...  
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much ...  
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the rail...  
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds...   Time
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by child...  
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done...  
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.  
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, ...   Science
Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belongin...  
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going ...  
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.  
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it...  
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.  
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of ...  
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a...  
The Amen of nature is always a flower.  
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, ...  
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.  
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in w...  
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of fact...  
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be ...  
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never retur...  
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not th...  
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.  
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.  
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo l...  
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thi...  
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often...  
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its g...  
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.  
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.  
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched w...  
To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful t...  
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes a...  
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, y...  
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.  
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we qui...  
When in doubt, do it.  
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hear...  
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and ...  
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face f...   Friendship