“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.

Dare to think!

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

A fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a fool but. A Genius can become a fool when he understands he is a Genius.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.