The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
If you would be a real seeker after truth it is necessary that at least once...
The senses deceive from time to time and it is prudent never to trust wholly...
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve...
When it is not in our power to follow what is true we ought to follow what...
Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly not only as to the things which I...
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of...
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.