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None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
