Richard Quotes

Richard Quote of the day

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Men and Melons are hard to know.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Observe all men, thyself most.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

The used key is always bright.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Let thy vices die before thee.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.