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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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.