Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Common sense is not so common.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

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

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.