Science is nothing but perception.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

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.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.