It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.