“The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.”

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, ” I must follow them. I am their leader.”

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man’s confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

There’s a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

… photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated – as though it had created itself.

The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark

You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don’t go getting shy on me now. ‘Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.

Lost journals are steps back home, like the mending of broken bones, like scars that act as patches to my soul, like the measurement marks on my mother’s wall that show just how much I’ve grown.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.