Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.