The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

Libraries raised me.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!