The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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.
What's done can't be undone.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
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.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
