“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves a…” — John Dewey

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.