Echoes

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

What speaks to the soul escapes our measurements.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

I know that I know nothing.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized. And there is plenty of it left even for posterity to discover.

I would prefer inarticulate wisdom to loquacious foolishness.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnameable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.