Others

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

So poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history, for while poetry is concerned with universal truth, history treats of particular facts.

Eureka! [I’ve got it!]

Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse

And so they could see she was a real princess, because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdowns.

‘But the Emperor has nothing on at all!’ cried a little child.

If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.

They write about it.

Countless chuckles of the waves of the sea.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

The fool does not ask; he who asks is no fool.

If you know [something], to recognize that you know it; and if you don’t know [something], to realize that you don’t know it—that is [true] knowledge.

One can know the world without going outside. One can see the Way of Heaven without looking out the window.

Never tire of studying, and never tire of teaching others.

When we walk together with three people, (at least) one of them will have something to teach us.

Whenever you have truth, it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only, but for all.

Truth stands, even if there is no public support; it is self-sustained.

Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

To believe in something and not live it is dishonest.