“If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.”
-Ivan Nuru
“If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.”
-Ivan Nuru
“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”
-Isaac Newton
“As long as you’re not hurting anybody else, as long as you’re being kind to people and you’re doing what you love, only good things came come of it.”
-Jason Silva
“Before you argue with someone, ask yourself, is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of different perspectives? Because if not, there’s absolutely no point.”
-Amber Veal
“There are only two ways to live your life: one as though nothing is a miracle, and the other as though everything is a miracle.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge — for knowledge is limited, while imagination encircles the world.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when we contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if we try merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.”
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as a wonderful opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty, in the realm of the spirit, for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community — to which your later work belongs.”
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether they are the garbage man or the president of the university.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
-Plato
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
-Anne Frank