It's good to shut up sometimes.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.