It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
All great achievements require time.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
