A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

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.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.