The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Appearance rules the world.

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

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

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

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

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

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing. To allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

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.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

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.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.