Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

People love conspiracy theories.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.