Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you’re really on.

I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.