Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy