Echoes

Man knows much more than he understands.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. It also wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life.

I would prefer inarticulate wisdom to loquacious foolishness.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

Exactitude is not truth.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Instead of announcing that what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but truth is a greater friend.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

I believe that the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.

Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.