The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.