118 Quotes About Maxims

Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems to agree with them, and therefore they are taken for truth.

A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.

What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness!

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

Nothing is as prolix as ignorance.

Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Treat me as I am,and that I shall remain.Treat me as I wish to be,and that I shall become.