How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

I can't stand when people say, Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. OK, how about I hate you because you said that