I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
