Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
You always admire what you really don't understand.