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

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Ignorance never settle a question.

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.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Men should strive to think much and know little.