Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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.

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.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.