The lie is a condition of life.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.