What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it