We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

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.‘

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

A person hears only what they understand.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

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

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.