Because - Quotes
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
When someone is searching, [...] then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal.
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school - and you think I'm going to explain it to you so you can understand it? No, you are not going to be able understand it. [...] You see my physics students don't understand it either. That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.