“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.”

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.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.

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

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.

In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.

Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.

Write me as if I were already a poem. Pen the stanzas as if storms and ships could birth something sacred. Color it a religious experience.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Managing the power of choice, with all it’s creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.