The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

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

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

The object of the superior man is truth.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously