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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.