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Top 25 George Iles Quotes (2024 Update)

George Iles Quote: “Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”

1. “Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”

— George Iles

George Iles Quote: “Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”

2. “Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”

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

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

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George Iles Quote: “A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”

4. “A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”

— George Iles

George Iles Quote: “Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.”

5. “Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.”

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George Iles Quote: “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.”

6. “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

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

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

— George Iles

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

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

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

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

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George Iles Quote: “Dumbness and silence are two different things.”

10. “Dumbness and silence are two different things.”

— George Iles

George Iles Quote: “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.”

11. “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

George Iles Quote: “No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull’s-eye, points elsewhere.”

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

— George Iles

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

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

— George Iles

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

14. “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

George Iles Quote: “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.”

15. “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

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

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

— George Iles

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

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

— George Iles

George Iles Quote: “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.”

18. “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

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

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

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George Iles Quote: “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.”

20. “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

George Iles Quote: “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.”

21. “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

George Iles Quote: “Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution.”

22. “Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution.”

— George Iles

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

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

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George Iles Quote: “Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.”

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

— George Iles

George Iles Quote: “Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.”

25. “Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.”

— George Iles

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

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

— George Iles

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

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

— George Iles

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