A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Facts are stubborn things.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The wisest have the most authority.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Science is nothing but perception.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.