Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.