“Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.”

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Science is organized knowledge.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Government is essentially immoral.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn’t mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don’t care either way to join the 33% who love you.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Tried to give you warning, but everyone ignores me. Told you everything loud and clear, but nobody’s listening.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.