Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
Stephen HawkingThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinDesign 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.
Steve JobsI am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert FrostA man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFrom the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel JohnsonAs we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesI do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul SartreHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauThe more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
Mark TwainScience is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen HawkingThere is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
Oscar WildeIt’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.
Alice WalkerThe truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry PratchettOnly the educated are free.
EpictetusIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeThought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas CarlyleOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry AdamsThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace ThackerayPoets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. FeynmanThe biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaNot only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John RuskinSeeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin DisraeliI call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch SpinozaWe are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
EpictetusTraining is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark TwainThe object of the superior man is truth.
ConfuciusIgnorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George EliotWe usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ronald ReaganAll writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.
Kurt VonnegutBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor DostoevskyIn some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert OppenheimerI was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
Terry PratchettBase souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauProperty is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireDeath is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen KellerThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William ShakespeareSin is geographical.
Bertrand RussellMay you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel KantWe moralize among ruins.
Benjamin DisraeliOrdinary morality is innate in my view.
Christopher HitchensWhen you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
ConfuciusDecadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest HemingwayLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinAptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus AureliusThe moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
EpicurusKnowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel JohnsonI agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
Bill GatesI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David ThoreauThere are many things that I don’t understand.
Billy GrahamWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalDo everything as in the eye of another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca