We Never Understand A Thing

Perfect Numbers Like Perfect Men Are Very Rare.

Situations In Life Often Permit No Delay; And When We Cannot Determine The Course Which Is Certainly Best, We Must Follow The One Which Is Probably The Best. This Frame Of Mind Freed Me Also From The Repentance And Remorse Commonly Felt By Those Vacillating Individuals Who Are Always Seeking As Worthwhile Things Which They Later Judge To Be Bad.

For I Found Myself Embarrassed With So Many Doubts And Errors That It Seemed To Me That The Effort To Instruct Myself Had No Effect Other Than Th Eincreasing Discovery Of My Own Ignorance

In Philosophy, When We Make Use Of False Principles, We Depart The Farther From The Knowledge Of Truth And Wisdom Exactly In Proportion To The Care With Which We Cultivate Them, And Apply Ourselves To The Deduction Of Diverse Consequences From Them, Thinking That We Are Philosophizing Well, While We Are Only Departing The Farther From The Truth; From Which It Must Be Inferred That They Who Have Learned The Least Of All That Has Been Hitherto Distinguished By The Name Of Philosophy Are The Most Fitted For The Apprehension Of Truth.

Common Sense Is The Most Widely Shared Commodity In The World, For Every Man Is Convinced That He Is Well Supplied With It.