“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.

You deserve to be chosen undoubtedly over and over again not merely considered.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.