Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.
I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language ‘understand of the people.’
Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.
Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?