wisdom
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, do not give him more money; rather diminish his desires.”
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
“Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.”
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
“It is never too late to be wise.”
“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.”
“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”