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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

The concepts of "majority" and "minority" necessarily reflect temporary arrangements and political judgments.

It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.

These possibilities of mental development are still further increased when the man makes his own records. This leads to closer attention, to more interest in the work, and to a realization of the man as to what the record really means, and what value it represents.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception.

The fundamental principle of scientific pedagogy must be, indeed, the liberty of the pupil;--such liberty as shall permit a development of individual, spontaneous manifestations of the child's nature.

Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.

I try to scare myself at least once a day.

It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.

They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.

There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.

There is nothing so unsociable and sociable as man, the one by his vice, the other by his nature.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other, arising from their necessary and unavoidable relations; which rights and duties there is no common human authority to protect and enforce.

All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.

the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market

it seems to me that the Muses aided our old writers to complete their finest and most esteemed works by calling in exile as a fellow-worker

All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.

But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.

For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.

For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.

Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.