Seeing is not always believing.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

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.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

No one but a fool is always right.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Vanity is but the surface.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

It’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.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

A person hears only what they understand.

I think the word rich is all relative.