But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Creativity is a flame that lights up and ignites the senses

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Thoughts are pennies from Heaven

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.

The first thought is often the best.

If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

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