Explore Quotes by George Berkeley

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.