All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

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

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

And maybe you can’t know me now.   Maybe I’m just blood. Whatever that’s for.

We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

I saw that with Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in 2008. I mean, I came away from the 2008 campaign feeling really icky.

We get educated out of creativity.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.