Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
All great achievements require time.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
