Resist much. Obey little.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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.
