The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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