The object of the superior man is truth.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Time wounds all heels.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
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!
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.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character