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George Iles quotes: Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

George Iles quotes: A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

George Iles quotes: Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

George Iles quotes: Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

George Iles quotes: Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

George Iles quotes: Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

George Iles quotes: When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

George Iles quotes: Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

George Iles quotes: Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

George Iles quotes: A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

George Iles quotes: Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

George Iles quotes: Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

George Iles quotes: Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles quotes: A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles quotes: When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

George Iles quotes: A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

George Iles quotes: Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

George Iles quotes: To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

George Iles quotes: No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

George Iles quotes: Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

George Iles quotes: We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

George Iles quotes: Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

George Iles quotes: Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

George Iles quotes: Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

George Iles quotes: Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

George Iles quotes: Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.