Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Someone who lives meaningfully for 30 years has lived a much longer Life than one who drifted through Life for 60 years.

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?