The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
From Alfred North Whitehead
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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