Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

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.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

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.

... 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.

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick