No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships