Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

I write all of my own speeches.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Nature is not human hearted.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

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.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

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

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

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.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.