Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.

Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

I don't know how long I'm going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good.

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

My name means freedom in Irish.

Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.