34 Quotes by George Iles

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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

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

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.

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

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution.

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.