Wisdom Sayings

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

I'm probably a really nice guy, but I'm an eccentric. I'm a reclusive person. I've always been a recluse.

I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Choose life so that you and your descendants may live.

It is man that can make the Way great, and not the Way that can make man great.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I was much disgusted at the first sight of the people. They were as rude and ill-favoured as their houses.

I consider myself a simple Buddhist monk. My life is not complicated.

A shepherd must smell of his sheep.

All living beings are endowed with consciousness.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

The important thing is to know how to take a hint, to seize upon the suggestion, however small, and to extract its full value.