Echoes

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

History is indeed the witness of times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity; by what other voice, if not that of the orator, is immortality commended?

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?

Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being. In your thought there are the rich, the poor, and the beggared. My thought holds that there are no riches but life; that we are all beggars, and no benefactor exists save life herself.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ... Don't stop to marvel.