"What is given freely has the most value. Remember this in all things."
"The future is not written. It is created by those who choose to create it."
"To transcend fear, you must face it. To defeat it, you must accept it."
"The mind is the battlefield. Master it, and you master all."
"In the darkness, a single light can guide an entire world. Be that light."
Leadership
"What you resist persists. What you accept transforms. Choose wisely."
"The Matrix cannot imprison those who know they are free. Know this truth."
Freedom
"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes."
Truth
"What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a system, Neo. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see?"
Power
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
Knowledge
"This is the world that you know. This world has now been reduced to nothing more than a dream."
Life
"Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream?"
Dreams
"The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat."
Science
"You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief."
Fear
"Do not try to bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth."
Wisdom
"There is no spoon."
Philosophy
"The Matrix cannot tell you who you are. That answer lies within you."
"What are you waiting for? You're faster than this."
Courage
"I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it."
Freedom
"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
Education
"A man is not born; he is reborn when he awakens to the truth."
Change
"The One will find the One when the time is right."
"Peace requires discipline. The discipline to accept what we cannot change."
Peace
"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged."
Truth
"Everyone feels it, even when they do not consciously recognize what it is: the presence of truth."
Faith
"Agents are sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system."
Technology
"The idea is to free your mind from the limitations you have accepted."
Imagination
"What you must learn is that these rules are no different than the rules of a system."
"It is the system itself that imprisons you."
Justice
"There are older civilizations that predate the Matrix. The One has always come to us at a time of great need."
History