George Iles Quotes

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• They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to…
• Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution
• To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
• Dumbness and silence are two different things.
• Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.
• Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig…
• Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
• Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
• When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
• Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
• Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
• Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
• When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
• Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
• Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom…
• No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
• Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our…
• Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
• A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and…
• A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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