Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Common sense is not so common.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

My life is a struggle.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.