Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.