It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.