To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

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.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.