If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.