The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

You always admire what you really don't understand.