A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Your value is nothing if you cannot honor your word. If you do not mean what you say, you are the most mean person on the Earth.

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

I'm not really very ambitious.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself.

Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.