One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

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

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

A friend to all is a friend to none

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.