All George Iles Quotes
- 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… Ahead
- Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution 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. Aid
- Dumbness and silence are two different things. Different Things
- Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example. Any
- 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… Artificial
- Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. Confident
- Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. Detached
- When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. Build
- Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. Doorstep
- Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up. Banner
- Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it. Better
- 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. Familiarity
- Discovery begins by finding the discoverer. Begins
- 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… Blossom
- No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. Bulls
- 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… Arch
- Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. Beginning
- 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… Addition
- A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. Explanation
- A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? Boughs
- Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze. Account
- Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. Any
- Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream. Company
- A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. Calculating