It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

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

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.