14 quotes found
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
“A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.”
“If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
“I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate i...”
“Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.”
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.”
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.”
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedo...”
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.”
