“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.