Everything Quotes

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

To be is to do.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Talent works, genius creates.