Wisdom

Haste is of the Devil.

Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

You can never please everybody, don't even try.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.

To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) – these three are the reasons the world’s delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created.

To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for truth even if you have to vote alone; believe it 'your vote will not be lost'!

Humans are the most inhumane of all creatures.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.

Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.

Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled about, maybe not only from neglect but also from too much haphazard searching in them, and things to boot thrown in that don't belong there.

If 'Manners maketh man,' as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they.

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

...Perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—''By time traveli.