He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.