Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Every man is his own hell.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Words are loaded pistols.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

When you give, it comes back to you.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.