Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

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.

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.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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.

All great achievements require time.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.