New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

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.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Knowledge is true opinion.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.