Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

God does not play dice.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Where there is love there is life.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

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

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.