The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen?
It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines. " and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them. " Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that. . . the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
The child must teach the man.
If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
When you forgive a person, what do you do? You accept the situation, to begin with. And secondly, you forgive what you think has been done wrong to you. But because nothing wrong can be done to your spirit, you just forgive because you are the spirit. And when you forgive, you have found that your tension goes away.
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.