Let us have 'sweet girl graduates' by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the 'golden hair' will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
The phrasing reflects period-specific gender norms that may feel dated.
It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equa…
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpar…
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.
No man is the wiser for his learning.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: 'In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will…
There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.