"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
— Robert M. Pirsig

"Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
— Chuang-Tzu (Chuang-tzu: the Treatise of the Transcendent Master from Nan-hua: Nan-Hua-Ch'en-Ching : or the Treatise of the Transcendent Master from Nan-Hua English Translation by Derek Bryce)

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness..."
— Dalai Lama (The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World)

"I do not judge the universe"
— Dalai Lama

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia."
— Eric Liu

"I decline to accept the end of man... I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
— William Faulkner

"...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
— Stephen W. Hawking

"Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
— Aart van der Leeuw

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
— Henry David Thoreau

"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."
— Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
— Stephen W. Hawking

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
— Stephen W. Hawking

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
— Niels Bohr

"“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” "
— Niels Bohr

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
— Oscar Wilde

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"Know thyself."
— Socrates

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
— George Bernard Shaw