A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

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.

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.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.