"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."       - Herbert Agar


"As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man."

- James Barrie


"There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them."

- Anthony de Mello


"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."      - Albert Einstein


"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself." -       Galileo Galilei


"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -      Galileo Galilei


"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."      - C.G. Jung


"Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you."

- Anthony de Mello


"As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind."

- Anthony de Mello


"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."      - Anthony de Mello


"Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people."      - Martina Navratilova


"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.      - Plato


"Wisdom is knowing how little we know"      - Socrates


"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for."

- Socrates


"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief"      - Gerry Spence


"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau


"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."     - Henry David Thoreau


"We do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing"       - Jean Toomer


"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination."

- William Arthur Ward


"No amount of education, reading, or study can make you great without thought; but thought can make you great with very little study."

- Wallace D. Wattles


"Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught."

- Oscar Wilde


"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde


"To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love."

- Oscar Wilde


"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde


"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

- Oscar Wilde


"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. "      - Oscar Wilde


"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."     - Oscar Wilde


"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead"      - Oscar Wilde


"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend; it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success."

- Oscar Wilde