If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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 wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
