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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

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

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

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.