Quotes and Sayings

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.

Advance and never halt for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path for they draw only corrupt blood.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth follow only beauty and obey only love.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy after life.

Say not ‘I have found the truth’ but rather ‘I have found a truth.’

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked through understanding.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked through understanding.

If indeed you must be candid be candid beautifully.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.

Man merely discovers’ he never can and never will invent.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

We fear death yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death for it is but another mystery of life.

To be closer to God be closer to people.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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