Tom Brown Jr. Quotes

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are

Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.