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.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Think globally, act locally.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
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.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
