To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.