Wisdom Sayings

The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.

I have often tried to grasp that which I have found.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

The only way to keep a secret between two is to kill one of them.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The chemical elements are the children of the sun.

The more I think about the physical aspects of the electron, the more it becomes a puzzle.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Beware the man of a single book.

If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.

I lift my goblet to melt away sorrow, but sorrow continues in sorrow.

How I long to lie down in some gully, alone and untrammeled! But I laugh at myself: an old madman growing older, growing madder.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

You will not know a detail of the mysteries of existence, as long as you are not disoriented in the circle of existence.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity.