Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

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.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Solutions are not the answer.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

When in doubt, don’t.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

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 function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Religion is just mind control.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I don’t easily fall for lies, I can see through things.

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.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.