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Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. -- George Iles
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
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze. -- George Iles
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? -- George Iles
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream. -- George Iles
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
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. -- George Iles
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. -- George Iles
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. -- George Iles
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. -- George Iles
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
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it. -- George Iles
Dumbness and silence are two different things. -- George Iles
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
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. -- George Iles
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth. -- George Iles
Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution -- George Iles
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county. -- George Iles
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. -- George Iles
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. -- George Iles
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
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer. -- George Iles
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
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up. -- George Iles
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -- George Iles
Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground. -- George Iles
Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example. -- George Iles
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. -- George Iles
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. -- George Iles