Yoda

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

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

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.