The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.