Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.