Mind-Blowing Quotes

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the lightest.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

A person may be as clever as the sky, but as long as he does not write, he will be lost in history and drowned by time.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

The superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mean man is conversant with gain.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.