Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind
The most significant derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely significant.
Question your priorities often, and make sure God always comes first.
It is not the germs we need to worry about. It is our inner terrain.
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
It's not bringing in the new ideas that are so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.