There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

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.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

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.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

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.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.