Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
