All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.