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

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

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.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

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

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Being is the great explainer.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.