Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We read more

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have read more

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found read more

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and read more

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.