The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.