Top 90 Leonard Nimoy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.”

— Leonard Nimoy

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2. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

— Leonard Nimoy

3. “The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.”

— Leonard Nimoy

4. “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”

— Leonard Nimoy

5. “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”

— Leonard Nimoy

6. “Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.”

— Leonard Nimoy

7. “Whatever we are we belong together. Wherever we are, we will find each other. Whoever we are we are forever one.”

— Leonard Nimoy

8. “When you let me take I’m grateful. When you let me give I’m blessed.”

— Leonard Nimoy

9. “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”

— Leonard Nimoy

10. “May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.”

— Leonard Nimoy

11. “Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.”

— Leonard Nimoy

12. “Insufficient facts always invite danger.”

— Leonard Nimoy

13. “Because I have been lonely, I value love.”

— Leonard Nimoy

14. “You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.”

— Leonard Nimoy

15. “I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.”

— Leonard Nimoy

16. “Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.”

— Leonard Nimoy

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17. “Without followers, evil cannot spread.”

— Leonard Nimoy

18. “In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.”

— Leonard Nimoy

19. “A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.”

— Leonard Nimoy

20. “That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”

— Leonard Nimoy

21. “Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.”

— Leonard Nimoy

22. “Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.”

— Leonard Nimoy

23. “It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.”

— Leonard Nimoy

24. “Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.”

— Leonard Nimoy

25. “There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.”

— Leonard Nimoy

26. “Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.”

— Leonard Nimoy

27. “What fiction could match – in drama or suspense – man’s first walk on the Moon?”

— Leonard Nimoy

28. “Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.”

— Leonard Nimoy

29. “Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it.”

— Leonard Nimoy

30. “We are all children searching for love.”

— Leonard Nimoy

31. “I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.”

— Leonard Nimoy

32. “Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.”

— Leonard Nimoy

33. “I’ve never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.”

— Leonard Nimoy

34. “I consider myself more spiritual than religious.”

— Leonard Nimoy

35. “If I meet God, I hope she’s female. I’m touched by the power of women. I’m married to a feminist. And I’m troubled by the fact that women in our culture are congratulated most for losing weight.”

— Leonard Nimoy

36. “It’s all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I’m proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.”

— Leonard Nimoy

37. “Spock is definitely one of my best friends.”

— Leonard Nimoy

38. “I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.”

— Leonard Nimoy

39. “You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.”

— Leonard Nimoy

40. “Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response comes in individual terms. Each viewer sees what is there for him, depending on his frame of reference.”

— Leonard Nimoy

41. “I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, “You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played,” I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him.”

— Leonard Nimoy

42. “I’ve noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.”

— Leonard Nimoy

43. “My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.”

— Leonard Nimoy

44. “I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they’ll move to outer space.”

— Leonard Nimoy

45. “Whatever I have given, I have gained.”

— Leonard Nimoy

46. “I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing.”

— Leonard Nimoy

47. “I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.”

— Leonard Nimoy

48. “Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.”

— Leonard Nimoy

49. “My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife’s cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.”

— Leonard Nimoy

50. “How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?”

— Leonard Nimoy