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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Time wounds all heels.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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.

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