Stephen Hawking Quotes & Sayings

“Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity.”

“When something is gone, something better is coming.”

“Hope is the one thing stronger than fear.”

“Anyone can say they care, but watch their actions, not their words.”

“Never judge people by their past. People learn. People change. People move on.”

“A wise man never knows all; only fools know everything.”

“Don't be afraid to start over again. This time, you're not starting from scratch. You're starting from experience.”

“In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.”

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”

“If you want to be strong, learn to enjoy being alone.”

“A painful truth is always better than a hidden lie.”

“Before you say something to someone, always think about how you'd feel if someone told you the same thing.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.”

“If you can follow small rules, you can break big rules.”

“Let us fight for every woman and every man to have the opportunity to live healthy, secure lives, full of opportunity and love. We are all time travellers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit.”

“The universe does not behave according to our preconceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.”

“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. It's a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

“The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.”

“You are at your strongest when you are calm. A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.”

“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”

“Do the right thing, because it is right.”