Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
I think, therefore I am.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.