To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Bible

And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Josiah Royce

You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.

Ron Todd

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Michael Leboeuf

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Henry Taube

Aromatic plants bestowno spicy fragrance while they grow;but crush'd or trodden to the ground,diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Oliver Goldsmith

To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.

John Buchan

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Mo Yan

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Horace

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Herman Melville