“I think therefore I am. ”

“It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. ”

“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.”

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

“I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.”

“When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“Stand firm as surefooted as deer.”

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”

“Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.”

“After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline.”

“I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.”