It has been frequently said that many of the world’s greatest inventions were due to accident. In a sense this is true. But the accident was prepared… - Henry Hazlitt

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else — or from themselves. Increased handouts to selected groups mean merely increased taxes, or increased deficits and increased inflation.

What men do not know about they take for granted. Knowledge furnishes problems, and the discovery of problems itself constitutes an intellectual advance.