Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Life is wasted on the living.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Life is warfare.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.