The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

To be is to do.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

The cautious seldom err.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.