Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
A man is literally what he thinks.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
The lie is a condition of life.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Be curious, not judgmental.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.