The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Confidence is the beauty, kindness is the charm, style is the uniqueness and fashion is the mask.

In a research-poor context, isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

"Of what are you afraid my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh sir! the flowers they are wild " replied the timid creature.

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.