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

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.

Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Things are just things – they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us.

Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.