Intelligence is a moral category.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.