Science is nothing but perception.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Religions get lost as people do.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

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

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Sin is geographical.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.