“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.”

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

When goodness is lost there is morality.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.

New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.