Curated journeys

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

A different language is a different vision of life.

All language is an alphabet of symbols whose use presupposes a past shared by all.

Language is the dress of thought.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

I am still learning.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Fortune favors the bold.

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Lost time is never found again.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.