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482. The church is looking for better methods. God is looking for better men.

483. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

484. The collapse of character begins with compromise.

485. The Congress is a strange place where people get up and speak, nobody listens, and then everyone disagrees at the top of their lungs.

486. The Congress is a strange place where people get up and speak, nobody listens, and then everyone disagrees at the top of their lungs.

487. The cover of this book are too far apart.

488. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

489. The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get.

490. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

491. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

492. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

493. The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

494. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

495. The dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

496. The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters.

497. The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters.

498. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

499. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

500. The factory worked well until we put people in it.

501. The Golden Rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.

502. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

503. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

504. The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.

505. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

506. The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.

507. The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

508. The kind man discovers it and calls it kind. The wise man discovers it and calls it wise. The people use it day by day and are not aware of it, for the way of the superior man is rare.

509. The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in due season.

510. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

511. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

512. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

513. The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

514. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

515. The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

516. The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...

517. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

518. The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

519. The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

520. The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it.

521. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

522. The pine stays green in winter... Wisdom in hardship.

523. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

524. The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

525. The sage is as pointed as a square but does not pierce. He is as acute as a knife but does not cut. He is as straight as an unbent line but does not extend. He is as bright as light but does not dazzle.

526. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

527. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

528. The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

529. The sky holds no trace of bird or smoke or storm; an evil teaching carries no Enlightenment; nothing in this world is stable; but an Enlightened mind is undisturbed.

530. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Australians are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

531. The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

532. The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

533. The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

534. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

535. The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

536. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

537. The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; Bold, he is free from fear.

538. The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

539. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

540. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.

541. The wise learn many things from their enemies.

542. The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

543. The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

544. The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.

545. There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle..."Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

546. There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

547. There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

548. They talk most who have the least to say.

549. They whom truth and wisdom lead can gather honey from a weed.

550. Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

551. This Self is not realisable by study nor even by intelligence and learning. The Self reveals its essence only to him who applies himself to the Self. He who has not given up the ways of vice, who cannot control himself, who is not at peace within, whose mind is distracted, can never realise the Self, though full of all the learning in the world.

552. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead.

553. Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

554. Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know. Keep your mouth closed. Guard your senses. Temper your sharpness. Simplify your problems. Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. He who has achieved this state is unconcerned with friends and enemies. With good and harm, with honour and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

555. Those who seek the true path to Enlightenment must not expect an easy task or one made pleasant by offers of respect and honour and devotion. And further, they must not aim with a slight effort, at a trifling advance in calmness or knowledge or insight.

556. Though by wicked acts one may reach one's aim, A wise man never resorts to such means. The wise are not ashamed if they do not reach their goal, Provided they have righteously endeavoured for it.

557. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

558. 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

559. To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.

560. To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.