It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
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.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact