The less you know, the more you believe.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

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

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I answer only to God.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.