Science is nothing but perception.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

To be is to do.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

What one fool can understand, another can.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

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

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.