Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
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.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.