But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
Intelligence is a moral category.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
