24 Quotes by Robert A. Burton

Hiring the mind as a consultant for understanding the mind feels like the metaphoric equivalent of asking a known con man for his self-appraisal and letter of reference.

Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.

The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Build castles in the air.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, – our style betrays us.

Out of too much learning become mad.