That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

Eat, breathe, meditate and love and you're all set

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.