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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target . . . others cannot even see.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent. Intuition of the truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. . . . But genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train.

A true talent delights the possessor first.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.