Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
At times I think and at times I am.
I think; therefore I am.
All serious daring starts from within.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
We do not judge the people we love.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
