To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Time wounds all heels.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
