Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.