A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

I think, therefore I am.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.