The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

God does not play dice.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Character is destiny.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

To be is to do.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.