“Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.”

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Science is organized knowledge.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with,

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.