I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

Life is precious.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Life is anything but predictable.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

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.