“Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.”

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

I always take the audience into account.

Educate yourself, hold the people around you accountable, seek ways to help, and don’t sit on the sidelines.

Sometimes you gotta take accountability for the way you feel no matter what a person puts you through.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.