Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

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.

The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

Horses react appropriately while waiting for the human to get it right.

Education is imposed ignorance.

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her