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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wisdom , penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement , leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Beware of the person of one book.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.