Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

History is written by the victors.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.