wisdom
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”
“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
“To be great, be whole; exclude nothing.”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
“I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“He who does not really feel himself lost is obliged to remain in illusions.”
“The man with the clear head is the man who frees himself from these fantastic “ideas” and looks at the world without illusions.”