There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

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.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Criticize the act, not the person.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.