You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him to find it within himself.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

It’s never too late to step off a path and look for a different route.

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?

Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

He'd score more goals if he was a better finisher.

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

Flattery will get you everywhere.

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.