Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher cho…

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another.

The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.

Abstract cleverness of the mind only separates the thinker from the world of reality, and that world, the Forest of Real Life, is in a desperate condition now …

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.