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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Don't stumble over something behind you.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
