Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Everything popular is wrong.

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

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.