Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.