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

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.