Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
A friend to all is a friend to none
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
