“A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.”

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.

The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.

Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.