Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

The desire of knowledge like the thirst of riches increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

As knowledge increases wonder deepens.

The chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall and increases but to decay.

More company increases happiness but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

Deficits mean future tax increases pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Friendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening which increases with the setting sun of life.

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports rails in the skies our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.