Wisdom

It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. For when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.

I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.

Just tell yourself they're only stories. Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations).

He turned to Miss Minerva. 'I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that.'Thank you,' she said.'As good as a man's,' he added.'Oh, now you've spoiled it!

Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions.

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?