The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

No one else will ever see your dream until YOU envision it. See it and they’ll see it too.

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.

I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.