An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
To know and not to act is not to know.
Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.
People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act. . . . They say [they will wait] till they truly know before putting their knowledge into practice. Consequently to the end of their lives, they will never act and also will never know.
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.
Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.
Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.