Classic Quotes Collection

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

An honest man is always a child.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.