Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Intelligence is a moral category.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
