“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

A life without investigation is not worth living.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.