The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Esteem to your higher self.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

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

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.