Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid