Berkeley, George

"Distrust is a necessary virtue in a dangerous world"

"The moment you lose the sense of the sacred, you cease to be human"

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body"

"Pain and pleasure are the springs of action"

"True freedom consists in independence from the authority of external physical causes"

"The chief things that the philosophers have made much ado about are hardly worth the learning"

"We must follow the light of reason wherever it leads us"

"Doubt is the key to knowledge"

"The love of truth is the most essential part of good breeding"

"Great men are the true men, the men in whom nature is satisfied"

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there"

"The foundation of morality is the nature of God"

"Nothing is so terrible as to see understanding decay"

"True politeness is perfect ease and freedom"

"The only true knowledge is the knowledge of God"

"To be deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage"

"Science is the systematic study of what appears to be"

"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out"

"Curiosity is the first step toward knowledge"

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy it"

"Modesty is the soft light that reveals the beauty of the soul"

"Words without ideas are just noise"

"The greatest deceptions are often the most obvious"

"We ought not to regard the world as the work of God the way a smith regards the work of his hands"

"Nothing is new except what has been forgotten"

"The pursuit of knowledge is endless; it is a journey, not a destination"

"Man is made for something better than being a slave to his senses"

"Happiness is not made but discovered"

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"