Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
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.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
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.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.