Walt Whitman: Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. (Only what proves itself to every ma

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my so — Walt Whitman

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. (Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, Only what nobody denies is so.)

Walt Whitman

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Satius est supervacua scire quam nihil. — Seneca
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity — Samuel Johnson
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, — St. Augustine of Hippo
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwr — Albert Einstein
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. — Oscar Wilde
Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion. — Francis Bacon
Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glüc — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
κατὰ τὸν δεύτερον, φασί, πλοῦν τὰ ἐλάχιστα ληπτέον τῶν κακῶν — Aristotle
Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine. — Charles Dickens
I ought to love the Jews, as they seem to be my only friends intellectually, beg — Benedictus de Spinoza