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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
I think; therefore I am.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
We are what we believe we are.
Fortune favors the audacious.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Talent works, genius creates.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
I do not seek. I find.
At times I think and at times I am.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
Life is but thought.
If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Character is what a man is in the dark.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
To be is to be the value of a variable.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
When one teaches, two learn.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.