But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
