We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

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.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

When it’s your time, it is your time.