Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
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.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.