If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
Someday, the people we know, are acquainted to become the people we knew. They leave. They leave to pursue the opportunities laid down in their paths and they leave on account of misunderstandings. Their absence causes a vacuum, a space, an incomplet...
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.
Who is the wrong person to criticise? You
When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.
No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of an...
None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
