You are the reflection of what you think.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Ignorance never settle a question.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.