Oneself Quotes

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

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

One thing that’s never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda

Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.