Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope.
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.
You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head goes with her. If Doug is in the house, he must have gone through some opening unless he was born there and never left. If Sheila is alive at 9 A.M. and is alive at 5 P.M., she was also alive at noon. Zebras in the wild never wear underwear. Opening a jar of a new brand of peanut butter will not vaporize the house. People never shove meat thermometers in their ears. A gerbil is smaller than Mt. Kilimanjaro.
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
A good business book teaches simple truths.
If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.
Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
