It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash val...
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
One of the surest ways to live a life that's full of disappointments, is to expect people to be perfect.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals is not their greater philanthropy, but their greater impatience. The question is not whether we wish to see everyb...
Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
