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I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.