Louis Agassiz Quotes

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

Because of a few, disasters come upon a whole people, and because of the evil deeds of one, many have to taste their fruits.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.