To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

‚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.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

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

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

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

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

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

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

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

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Knowledge is power.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.