It is generally much more shameful 

to lose a good reputation 

than never to have acquired it.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. 

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The best scientist is open to experience 

and begins with romance — 

the idea that anything is possible.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. 

It has created the word loneliness 

to express the pain of being alone. 

And it has created the word solitude 

to express the glory of being alone.

People are not disturbed by things, 

but by the view they take of them.

All men dream, but not equally. 

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, 

wake in the day to find that it was vanity: 

but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, 

for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, 

to make them possible.

Imagination creates reality.

What people say, 

what people do, 

and what they say they do 

are entirely different things.

To know what you prefer 

instead of humbly saying Amen 

to what the world tells you ought to prefer, 

is to have kept your soul alive.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The most thought-provoking thing 

in our thought-provoking time 

is that we are still not thinking.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

All credibility, 

all good conscience, 

all evidence of truth 

come only from the senses.