To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Love is a state of being.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Observe all men, thyself most.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Theology is unnecessary.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Facts are stubborn things.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.