That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

If you judge, investigate.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

History, a distillation of rumour.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.