The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Seeing is not always believing.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

I just want to lobby for God.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Information is not knowledge.