Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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!
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.