Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Wisdom
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Wisdom
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Life
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Wisdom
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Wisdom
Philosophy begins in wonder.And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Wisdom
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Life
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Truth