Berkeley, George

"Technology is but a tool; it is the mind that gives it purpose."

"All music is the expression of the mathematical harmony of creation."

"The politics of virtue is the only true politics."

"War is the failure of reason and the triumph of passion."

"The strength of the soul lies in its capacity to endure and overcome."

"Relationships are built on the foundation of mutual understanding and respect."

"All inspirational truth comes from understanding the nature of existence."

"The mind that is constantly changing has never truly understood anything."

"Death is but a transition from one state of being to another."

"The mind is the principal seat of activity; the body is but its instrument."

"To be is to be perceived, and all things exist in the mind of God."

"We ought to think with the learned, but speak with the vulgar."

"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

"All knowledge begins with wonder."

"The great advantage of not being deceived is the truth."

"Mankind have agreed to call that real which is constantly recurring."

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

"The more we study the works of nature, the more we discover design."

"True civility consists in treating all men with a certain outward respect."

"Ideas which are in the mind are truly there, whatever may be without."

"The objects of human knowledge are of two sorts: ideas and notions."

"What is the cause of iniquity? Not the mind of man, but the absence of virtue."

"Health is a blessing that money cannot buy."

"The eye by long use comes to see in a dim light."

"To love is to place our happiness in another's happiness."

"True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by imagination, exist without the mind is what everybody will allow."

"The creation of the universe is the creation of ideas in the mind of God."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"In a word, I am convinced that all that is called learning is but a species of idleness."