To thine own self be true.

And then it follows as night the day

that thou can't be false to any man.

~ William Shakespeare

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is-

Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side;

and quite another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

~ Whately

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ Antoine de Saint-Expury

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism,

and nothing comes out but what was put in.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind

it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects

which we have never perceived before.

~ Francois Chateaubriand

Ye shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you free.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

There are two ways to slide easily through life:

to believe everything or to doubt everything;

both ways save us from thinking.

~ Alfred Korzybski

Faced with having to change our views or

prove that there is no need to do so

most of us get busy on the proof.

In all affairs, it's a healthy idea, now and then,

to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

Every man has a right to his opinion,

but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

It isn't what people don't know that gives us trouble.

It's that they know so many things that just ain't so.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now ~ always.

~ Albert Schweitzer

To know is nothing at all;

to imagine is everything.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

My commitment is to truth, not consistency.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half truths.

It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

I have abandoned my search for truth

and now I am in search of a good fantasy

...that which is right is not always popular

and that which is popular is not necessarily right

A great many people think that they are thinking

when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction

   is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please-

or what is worse ~

   to avoid trouble.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For my own part, I live every day as if this were the first day

I had ever seen and the last day I were going to see.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

~ Theodore Roethke

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts.

There's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

You are young, and as the years go by, time will change,

   and even reverse many of your present opinions.

Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up

   as a judge of the highest matters.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand;

he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both;

but he that gives good admonition and bad examples,

builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing.

Education a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

~ Oscar Wilde

A strong conviction that something must be done

is the parent of many bad measures.

~ Daniel Webster

The man who does not read good books

has little advantage over one who can't.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Never try to teach a pig to sing.

It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Many receive advice, few profit from it.

~ Publilius Syrus

No man is wise enough by himself.

~ Plautus

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

The price of wisdom is more than rubies

In much wisdom is much grief:

and he that increseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

The true mystery of the world is the visible,

not the invisible.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

A perception, sudden as blinking,

that subject and object are one,

will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding;

and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth....

Beauty is its own excuse for being.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve

that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,

and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Music stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter,

a sort of nebulous mediator, like and unlike the things it mediates.

Spirit that requires manifestation in time and matter that can do without space.

...We do not know what music is.

~ Heinrich Heine

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,

to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty.

I only think of how to solve the problem.

But, when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,

I know it is wrong.

~ Buckminster Fuller

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody.

Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy.

Music is the universal language of mankind-

poetry their universal pastime and delight.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day will come when after harnessing the winds, the tides, and gravitation,

we shall harness for God the energies of love.

And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world,

man will have discovered fire.

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

There is no fear in love;

but perfect love casteth out fear;

because fear hath torment.

He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:

The only ones among you who will be truly happy

are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other

but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love seeketh not Itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives it ease,

And builds a heaven in Hell's despair.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

Everything is united by it alone.

Love is God,

and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

~ Sophocles

Love conquers all things;

let us surrender to love.

Love, Love, Love,

all you need is Love

all you need is Love

LOVE is all you need.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love;

it is a great triumph over Christianity.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

When love begins to sicken and decay

It useth an enforced ceremony

This is my commandment, that ye love one another.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love posseses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.

A Man in love is incomplete until he has married- then he is finished.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

I find we are growing serious,

and then we are in great danger of being dull.

If you don't have a sense of humor it isn't funny!

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have,

and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else will be added unto you.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within.

~ Jesus of Nazareth

 You need an ego to get on the bus!

The happiest life, seen in perspective,

can hardly be better than a stringing together of odd little moments.

~ Norman Douglas

Give me the luxuries of life

and I will willingly do without the necessities.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The greatest discovery of my generation is

that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

True happiness is of a retired nature, an enemy to pomp and noise.

~ Joseph Addison

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, one directionally,

without regret or reservation.

~ William H. Sheldon

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

~ Proverbs 17:22

Happiness depends, as nature shows,

Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

~ Andre Gide

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

Happiness is the only sanction of life;

where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it

than to consume wealth without producing it.