“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.

Dare to think!

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.

It’s fine if you doubt me. Underestimate me, because then I’ll just impress you, you know.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life – as an artist and as a person – has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

Faith without doubt is addiction.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.