One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.