Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
The object of the superior man is truth.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Time wounds all heels.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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'.
