Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

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

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

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

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

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

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

And yet it moves.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.