All Quotes

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person. ”

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. ”

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. ”

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. ”

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ”

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. ”

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ”

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ”

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. ”

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. ”