The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

True leaders do the right thing when the team's success is at stake and integrity is challenged.They just commit to personal excellence~Bluenscottish

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!