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

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

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I am two with nature.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

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.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.