Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. — George Iles Copy Share Image
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone,… — George Iles Copy Share Image
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be… — George Iles Copy Share Image
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists… — George Iles Copy Share Image
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve… — George Iles Copy Share Image
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles Copy Share Image
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. — George Iles Copy Share Image
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest… — George Iles Copy Share Image
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles Copy Share Image
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles Copy Share Image
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. — George Iles Copy Share Image
