Society and the World

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn’t any.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into Freedom.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: to be himself.

Thinking is the endeavor to capture reality by the means of ideas.

“Every man has his price.” This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Integrity which has been attacked by no temptation can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Teaching is an act of love, a spiritual cohabitation, one of the few sacred relationships left in a crass secular world.

he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Although tact is a virtue, it is very closely allied to certain vices; the line between tact and hypocrisy is a very narrow one. I think the distinction comes in the motive.