Appearances often are deceiving.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.