All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

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

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

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

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

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

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

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

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

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.