It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

History is more or less bunk.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Losing is tough.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.