You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Time wounds all heels.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.