But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

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

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I think I’ve got wiser.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Truth is what works.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

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

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

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

When you give, it comes back to you.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

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.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.