Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

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.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.