Intelligence is a moral category.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

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.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.