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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

I am not young enough to know everything.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that a 100 wise men can’t get out.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.